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Fee-fi-fo-fum -Now I'm borrowed.Now I'm numb.

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As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.

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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

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That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol...more

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We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not discover us for we lie together all in green like ...more

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Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yoursel...more

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The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

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Some women marry houses.

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Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

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I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

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Many women are singing together of this: one is in a shoe factory cursing the machine, one is at the aquarium tending a seal, one is dull at the wheel...more

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Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your ...more

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Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals...more

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Live or die, but don't poison everything...Well, death's been herefor a long time --it has a hell of a lotto do with helland suspicion of the eyeand t...more