The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

Author:Franny Choi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

I’m distance-skinned. No one can put a story inside me

but me. If not even my memories love me enough to stay,

then fine, cut off the hands that keep me married

to any history. See? Like magic, then,

I call myself a rotted-out bulb, and soon enough

I’m hauling out the wet stuff, cracking my compost heart

under a shovel’s faceless verdict. Sometimes a highway opens

between my hearts, and I run suicides till I’m lactic.

Sometimes I wonder how long I’d have to run

to reach the last generation where one of us felt loved,

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