All've It by Matt Moberg, segment 2
...continued tell me it that isn't holy. tell me there is a better word than sacred for the way light keeps returning with no guarantee we will actually stop and take note. i know people who believe in therapy, probiotics, tarot, twelve-step meetings, manifestation journals, and waiting exactly eleven minutes before texting back so they do not appear emotionally available even though their whole nervous system is standing in the driveway holding flowers and underneath all of it, every ritual, every doctrine, every smoothie with chia seeds, the prayer is the same: please let me be loved. please let me be forgiven. please let this strange little life mean something before my lower back submits its formal resignation. what is going on? for real tho--what is this place? this unbearable tenderness of being alive long enough to watch steam lift from coffee in winter like a soul practicing leaving. to see your friend laugh so hard the...
