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does it ever occur to you that humans are not built for a fight? we are soft and inefficient and easily broken. to describe a man is to flirt with vulnerability, with our complicated internal skeletal structures and our hearts that are easily found and wounded. i think that we are a race of leaners: we lean on each other, our hips are manufactured to anticipate leaning; there is a silent understanding that we are just. fragile. in a word. sometimes i think we are the weakest species of all.
but then there is that recognition of our own fragility and it is astonishing. to understand our mortality, our brevity, our single second-ness.