Psalm for the Slightly Tilted

In the year they come for us watch my people make protest signs out of old pizza boxes. Watch-

there are no boring people which is unfortunate. You’d think statistically we’d get at least a few- one-speed souls with just meh stuff to do.

But none of them are dull. Each— a suitcase held together by duct tape.

These are your coffee-stained saints who rise not with trumpets but with Advil. They stand and wait creased like maps of a country that doesn’t exist anymore.

-Ilya Kaminsky - The New Yorker