posts tagged "Sherman Alexie"

"Believe me, everything looks like a noose if you stare at it long enough.”
-Sherman Alexie, from “Indian Education"

"I walked home,
Chanted the first lines of this poem,
And committed them to memory.
And if a few strangers thought me crazy

For writing poetry, aloud, in public,
Like another homeless schizophrenic,
Then fuck them for wanting clarity
And fuck them for fearing mystery.”
-Sherman Alexie, from “Mystery Train"