Set in Ramallah, Palestine. Reviewed on 2018/10: https://www.instagram.com/p/Boh2U4qF_p4/
“Nothing new, then. Nothing new in this solid break with time. Nothing new except your past crawling out of you and then back toward you, alternating without skill between thoughts and images, trying to instill in you the indispensable calm needed to breathe in this rotten air naturally. Nothing is at the beck and call of the heart, which would command you to disobey, and you would. It would take you to the ends of the wilderness to chase a mountain quail and to the cruelest of words in the brusqueness of invective.”-
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