I though productivity was what survival looked like. - Saeed Jones

Everyone has a lie we’re quietly waiting to believe.

How did other people concentrate with all these bodies just walking around all the time? So many men and boys, each with bodies to study and memorize.

This place so coursing and vibrant that wonders would flash past whether you were watching or not. The city’s electric hum would stay with me. I knew I had to return to those streets and sidewalks, crowded with people who had found a way to be themselves.