Weight Machines

Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or machines:

“as his weight wilts
and he is on a porch
that won’t hold my arms,
or the legs of the race run
forwards, or the film
played backwards on his grandson’s eyes.”
—Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)

“Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)