Quote of the Day

we do not live in the present / we live in the promise / after all: this is the promised land / where power is conferred not from the ability to deliver, / but rather from the ability to promise delivery

this distinction is both as vital & as scarce / as a ventilator

i suppose the better unit of measurement would be: / the promise

how many promises does it take / to turn a crisis into campaign strategy? / how many promises does it take / to make the coffin your fault, not their misdoing?

-- Alok Vaid-Menon, Your Wound / My Garden, p. 36