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Writing poetry is a state of free float

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The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

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Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee and throw them ...more

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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There is the staircase,there is the sun.There is the kitchen,the plate with toast and strawberry jam,your subterfuge,your ordinary mirage.You stand re...more

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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

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You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye

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Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI ...more

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The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

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UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can't get out of bed.It's so...more

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It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

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Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away ...more

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Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.

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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.