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From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved ...more

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NexusI wrote stubbornly into the evening.At the window, a giant praying mantisrubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass,begging vacantly with pa...more

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I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, b...more

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The First BookOpen it.Go ahead, it won't bite.Well. . . maybe a little.More a nip, like. A tingle.It's pleasurable, really.You see, it keeps on openin...more

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don't think you can ever forget her don't even try she's not going to budgeno choice but to grant her spacecrown her with skyfor she is one of the man...more

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Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy.

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I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves

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I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an

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Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

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Since she's discoveredmen would rather drownthan nibble,she does just fine.