"I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!"
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"I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray."
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"God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse."
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"Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me."
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"Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains."
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"Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull."
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"Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse."
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"Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments."
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"Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats."
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"And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet."
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"As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool."
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"The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit."
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"This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star."
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"Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it."
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"I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float."
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"I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last."
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"Blue eyes wash off sometimes."
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"The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow."
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"I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates."
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"It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk."
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