“You know the phrase I keep thinking about?” a poet asked, on a different panel, at a festival in Copenhagen… — Emily St John Mandel
“You know the phrase I keep thinking about?” a poet asked, on a different panel, at a festival in Copenhagen. “‘The chickens are coming home to roost.’ Because it’s never good chickens. It’s never ‘You’ve been a good person and now your chickens are coming home to roost.’ It’s never good chickens. It’s always bad chickens.”
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