"The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards."
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"Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at."
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"Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well."
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"My mouth blooms like a cut."
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"The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself."
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"I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money."
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"Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind"
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"One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring.""
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"I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe."
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"Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf."
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"God is only mocked by believers."
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"Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?"
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"we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use."
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"I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back."
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"The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die."
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"Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil."
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"The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket."
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"Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook."
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"Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin."
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"Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love."
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