STARS LIKE A RUNWAY TO OBLIVION BY NANCY DAFOE 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 87
By 4am I was an amateur philosopher
still talking, trying to convince a young woman
that her life was worth living, a woman
I did not really know, who happened
to walk into my dorm room.
Without citing Aquinas on “beatific vision”
or Aristotle on the “function of a human”
I inst…