Mckaylee‘s blog post is not only well written, but I found it incredibly thought provoking. My attention was especially drawn by Spahr’s statement about how we all feel safe in our beds, without thinking what is actually happening just outside our doors. This statement was underlined by Mckaylee through the use of the lines “We wake up in the night with just each others, and admit that even while we believe that we want to believe that we all live in one bed of the earth’s atmosphere, our bed is just our bed and no one else’s and we can’t figure out how to stop it from being that way” (Spahr, 30). This explains how naive people can be, because we have the tendency of ignoring the connection that is present among us all, and how our lives depend on each other. This state of dependence, I believe, can be linked also to Judith Butler and to her argument of what life is it worth sparing. That being said, this connection underlines how important it is to understand that each decision that we make has consequences.

Benedetta Franzini.

Spahr, Juliana. This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Print.