Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes

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And here we are again:
no cake without breaking
eggs, unless it's a vegan cake
in which there are never any eggs
only the issue, the question,
the primacy of eggs,
which remains even in animal-free
foods, eaten by animal-free
humans in an inhumane world.

Brenda Shaughnessy

How long do I try to get water from a stone?
It's like having a bad boyfriend in a good band.

Brenda Shaughnessy

Trees move
at least as much as we do,
if only their heads and arms.

Brenda Shaughnessy

It's this 'every night' business
I have issues with. I can't waste another
third of my life drooling, snuffling,
spilling secrets from my honking mouth.
I'm selling the bed.

Brenda Shaughnessy

I've been melted into something
too easy to spill. I make more
and more of myself in order
to make more and more of the baby.
He takes it, this making. And somehow
he's made more of me, too.

Brenda Shaughnessy

You are not broken. You break again
and again because

that's what breaking means.
To be whole.

Brenda Shaughnessy