resilience not resilient in the sense of easygoing doesn’t let things get to her shakes it off—not like that not resilient like we can bounce back from tragedy after fucking tragedy overcoming with grace—no not resilient in the sense of flexible bending easily with life's vicissitudes life’s fucking vicissitudes—not likely but resilient in that we’re still alive resilient in picking up the broken pieces resilient in continuing to live, broken stumbling, in pain, but here shaking our fists at god and man taking our meds and texting our friends making coffee like an ancient ritual reading poetry like a fucking iv swearing in our poems because the poets taught us how— resilient like that