January 2010
5 posts
I took my bike to the shop today, I’m taking a yoga class next Wednesday, I’ve stopped drinking every night and I’m reading books all the way though again.
Resolutions in a Parked Car
bookparts:
After I’m done pleading with the steering wheel, after I’m done screaming at the white doors of the Friendship Inn, no, even while I’m spitting
and howling, I know, yes, this is the way we find out about ourselves: crying in rental cars in parking lots in strange cities that are already
too familiar. The huge ship in front of you, don’t you hope it will soon disembark? Don’t...
“But then, Inez has always been this way—certain, or at least seemingly so. It...”
– Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is The Bomb (Norton) (via cardiogram)
I haven’t read this yet, but it’ll arrive in the mail any day now and knowing Nick Flynn I know it’s going to be wonderful. Even this little snippet has punched me in the stomach.