"What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights."
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"In a dream you are never eighty."
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"Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine."
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"And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone."
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"My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more."
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"In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans."
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"My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right."
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"Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms."
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"Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport."
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"Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far."
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"Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark."
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"I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world."
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"Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off."
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"Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge."
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"O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave."
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"Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long."
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"Even without wars, life is dangerous."
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"Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run."
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"The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her."
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"I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still."
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