“She choreographed our advance out of the west, / camouflaged in North Face jackets // and New Balance sneakers. Papa hushed” – Jaswinder Bolina, “House Hunters”

“Nobody likes you when you’re 23” – Blink 182

“The speaker of a poem must be like a sac spider that ties itself down so its babies can eat its body.” – Lee Seong-bok, ‘Indeterminate Inflorescence’

“How was the band? They were okay. Not great, but pretty good. They played the songs I knew they would.” – NOFX, “Medio-Core”

“If you wanna get the feeling and you wanna get it right / then the music’s got to be loud” – Rancid, “Radio”

“We all want the same thing / from this world: / Call me nobody. Let me live.” – Amorak Huey, “We Were All Odysseus In Those Days”

“I beg you by those you left behind, so far from here, / … my lord, remember me, I beg you! Don’t sail off / and desert me, left behind unwept, unburied, don’t.” – Elpenor, ‘The Odyssey’

“It’s fit and proper for you to know your sports. / What greater glory attends a man, while he’s alive,” – Homer, ‘The Odyssey’

“my homies are always good / when i ask & i don’t ask enough.” – José Olivarez, “Ojalá: Me & My Guys”

“‘…True—but all lies in the lap of the great gods. / Weaker I am, but I still might take your life / with one hurl of a spear—my weapon can cut too…’/ Grim reminder—“ – Homer, ‘The Iliad’