#thomas hobohm

[loveisdamnation]

let me live and let it hurt

late spring in the mesilla valley, carrie fountain | the landing, marie howe | a conversation with richard siken, thomas hobohm | the thing is, ellen bass | the cow, ariana reines | the lives they lived: jeff buckley, his father’s son, chris smith

[commonplaceheart]

"I came out a few months before AIDS hit hard. The generation above me was decimated. The potential role models and guides I might have had were wiped out. The people who were going to protect me were eliminated. We're still recovering from that. I'm only getting the attention I'm getting because I survived. The attention was supposed to be spread out across a vibrant community. I try to be as attentive and careful as I can, because we're still recovering from the loss. Sometimes I get sloppy or frustrated or glib, but I try to be available and tender."

-Richard Siken, "A Conversation with Richard Siken," by Thomas Hobohm

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[commonplaceheart]

"Some of the questions were meant to mess with me-- what do you think of hard-boiled eggs and the color orange?-- but I decided to answer them honestly as well: hard-boiled eggs are good in spinach salads and the color orange is sadder than the color tangerine. Sometimes it's just a matter of them not knowing how to ask. I remember not knowing how to ask."

-Richard Siken, "A Conversation with Richard Siken," by Thomas Hobohm

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[eunoiareview]

Time Zones

When I first learned about time zones—how you can force the clock back a few hours by hopping on a plane—I was so young and ingenuous that for a brief moment I really believed in time travel. My dreams of immortality immediately collapsed under the weight of further explanations, rationality, logic, indefatigable mortality, the heavy line in the Pacific where the days change from one step to the…

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