A review by spaghettii
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Beautiful short loser 
"Tell me this, how come the past tense is always longer?"
"I'm not sad, he told me once laughing, I'm just always here"

The last prom queen in Antarctica
"I want to take care of our planet because I need a beautiful graveyard."
"I'll raise my hand so they know who to shoot."

Tell me something good
"
You are standing in the minefield again. Someone who is dead now told you it is where you will learn to dance." 

Dear Rose 
" If you're reading this then the bullet doesn't know us yet."
"These corpses I lay side by side on the page to tell you our present tense was not too late."