When Arnold formed his Family he had two mottos in mind. He had taken them from subway posters. One was ‘When family life stops, delinquency begins’; the other was ‘Be a brother to him’ If they were a family then they couldn’t be delinquents so he became the Father to all of them
Powerful New Literature.
"They say point to where it hurts
and my finger lands on a quiet midday,
when light is a glowing defeat stretching down streets, not in fullness,
but in scattered straight lines,
making buildings like Xs on axis"
This is the same person who looked at me talking to a black man without a home & his first thought was ‘crack addict’. He has a masters yet how is his ignorance this astounding. This is what happens when you’re terminally in theory, terminally online, you forget how to feel.
4/4
Took a breather from dinner with friends to smoke outside, a man without a home approaches me, we talk, I learn about him, he shows me his missing eye, I try & find God in these moments, arrange to meet him the next day w a bag of old clothes, I join the table again
1/4
Had to uninstall instagram. Loud Pharisees everywhere. Many of my friends are marketing evil. Crazy that there's clout to gain everywhere (this tweet included)
Says he wants to get the phrases found on the bullet casings tattooed on his body, says the whole family should get shot, no one laughs except his fiancée, in defence he moves into a rhetoric of how the death is justified bc of the damage done to marginalized communities
3/4
Had to uninstall instagram. Loud Pharisees everywhere. Many of my friends are marketing evil. Crazy that there's clout to gain everywhere (this tweet included)