"I have been cut in two."
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"All the oxygen of the world was in them. All the feet of the babies of the world were in them. All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them. All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them."
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"In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary."
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"True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief."
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"I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread."
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"Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made."
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"Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady..."
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"Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn."
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"it was my first doll that water went into and water came out of much earlier it was the diaper I wore and the dirt thereof and my mother hating me for it"
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"Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?"
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"Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter."
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"And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything."
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"Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark."
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"Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses."
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"I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two."
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"There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning."
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"Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out."
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"When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old."
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"It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam."
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"the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche."
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