Calling Him Back from Layoff

how are you doing

Sep 19 • 

Karan Kapoor

15

6

August 2025

The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXIV)

“The soft rain of the talking all around us was a cocoon I wanted to live inside.”

Aug 4 • 

Karan Kapoor

36

3

The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXXVII)

“the world is a cup the sun fills every day”

Aug 2 • 

Karan Kapoor

17

3

July 2025

In Michael Robins's class minus one

“They're in a circle and the river says, I've never understood round things, why would leaving come back / to itself?”

Jul 31 • 

Karan Kapoor

10

1

Love Poem

“it’s as if there’s a menu & she is the menu & everything is allowed”

Jul 8 • 

Karan Kapoor

10

3

This is this

“It’s funny how often we lie to ourselves.”

Jul 1 • 

Karan Kapoor

18

5

June 2025

Sigh

The amazing human brain is a gun pointed at itself.

Jun 27 • 

Karan Kapoor

17

2

Sincere

“I don’t know what poetry is, but a poem’s an obituary trying to be a prayer.”

Jun 24 • 

Karan Kapoor

18

5

Dress for Success

“they'd lost themselves to being lost / in wanting to be what they're not: music.”

Jun 17 • 

Karan Kapoor

11

Admission is free

“Do you ever feel the only way to be happy is to be someone else?”

Jun 4 • 

Karan Kapoor

10

The eulogy I didn’t give (XIII)

“Good parents make dinner.”

Jun 1 • 

Karan Kapoor

13

4

May 2025

Scratch the paint off most Americans and you’ll find an immigrant underneath

“America is the idea that America is an embrace”

May 26 • 

Karan Kapoor

14

4