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“Departure" Everyone wants to leave— those here long to be there, and many there ache to return here… There are some who’ve grasped that living is impossible neither here nor there— so they search, in vain, for alternatives. Few have come to understand that this impossibility of living stems not from geography, but from complicity. Most who stay or go never part ways with their surrender and quiet compliance— and so they recreate, everywhere they settle, the same conditions and reasons for departure. Few have realized that all places will remain unlivable as long as the urge to leave is born from a complicit, defeated self…” — Louis Yako
Departure"
Everyone wants to leave— those here long to be there, and many there ache to return here…
There are some who’ve grasped that living is impossible neither here nor there— so they search, in vain, for alternatives.
Few have come to understand that this impossibility of living stems not from geography, but from complicity.
Most who stay or go never part ways with their surrender and quiet compliance— and so they recreate, everywhere they settle, the same conditions and reasons for departure.
Few have realized that all places will remain unlivable as long as the urge to leave is born from a complicit, defeated self…