i’m actually illiterate

the memories come back like citrus https://www.instagram.com/p/CjkYE5MqDFX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

As the ventilator keeping her husband Felipe alive was disconnected, María Salinas Cruz shouted, “Fly high, my love!” in Spanish, loud enough to be heard through the glass at LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles on Jan. 28. Felipe was admitted on Jan. 1, his 48th birthday, after contracting COVID-19. During the winter surge, Latino and Black Angelenos died at two to three times the rate of white residents. // Note from the author: I was browsing the TIME photos and this image captured my mind and heart at once. There’s something here of desperation, of helplessness, a foreshadowed grief. I could not possibly let it go. https://www.instagram.com/p/CjP8bxfqq6o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

with its million things.

"feelin' meh"