anxiety
Worries are easier to bear with soup than without it.
1001 Yiddish Proverbs by Fred Kogos (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1970), 137.
Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job.
“Find a Better Job,” in The Gift: Poems by the Great Sufi Master, trans. Daniel James Ladinsky (New York: Penguin, 1999).
You can tell a lot from a person’s nails. When a life starts to unravel, they’re among the first to go.
Saturday (Toronto: Random House, 2006), 186.