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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

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beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those...more

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my gardenin the sun and in the rainand in the day and in the nightpain is a flowerpain is flowersblooming all the time.

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I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.

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when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we...more

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there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

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the impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving th...more

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So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.

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when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

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There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out.

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Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious o...more

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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your bod...more

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that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

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Born into thisInto hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to dieInto lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guiltyInto a country...more