"I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God."
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"Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their nets and let our childhood out, or are we the dolls themselves, born but never fed?"
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"Today life opened inside me like an egg."
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"Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses."
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"The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home."
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"No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain."
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"Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole."
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"Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked."
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"There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail."
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"You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going"
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"Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb."
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"All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling."
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"What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field."
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"What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks."
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"Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed."
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"you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage."
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"I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs."
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"For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier."
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"There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold out of common straw. The king summoned the girl and locked her in a room full of straw and told her to spin it into gold or she would die like a criminal. Poor grape with no one to pick. Luscious and round and sleek. Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. (Rumpelstiltskin)"
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"Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort."
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