A Quote by Ben Lerner
I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.
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Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.
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