Enough! Have some dignity and leave that stone unturned. Suck down whatever’s at hand and quick, back to your oars! There will be time enough for Yelp reviews in the grave. Fly wherever’s cheapest and learn to throw knives in the first bar you find. Take a ferry to an island off the coast and miss the day’s last return. You’ll meet a woman there with clairvoyant eyes who will press a warm stone into your palm. Your leisure should be ferocious. It should take more from you than you thought you had to give, but too many face their vacation like a period of mourning.

— Henry Weikel, Like shining from shook foil, 2024