It must borrow shame because the consensus doesn’t feel it, not yet, not today.

"The Right Side of Now", Lauren Michele Jackson for The New Yorker

Let us never forget: that the poem was entombed in a collapse of the earth.

Poetics of Relation, Edouard Glissant (as translated by Manthia Diawara in this essay)

Encountered as an epigraph to The Extractive Zone; author Macarena Gómez-Barris doesn't provide a citation to indicate which edition she's borrowing from but I couldn't find this sentence in a quick search of the edition of Poetics of Relation translated to English by Betsy Wing so it seems likely to be from this essay.

I would say “for better and for worse” but I’m not exactly sure what the “for better” part is.

"Hawk Tuah and the Zynternet", Max Read in Read Max

It looked like a toaster for a divorced giant.

"I Would Like to Put Lunchmeat on the Cybertruck", Albert Burneko for Defector

I was born near the top of the mountain and I’ve been sliding gently down ever since.

"No Goals, Just Vibes", Crone Life

Submitted by Stephen.