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There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, re...more

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Raise from your bed of languorRaise from your bed of dismayYour friends will not come tomorrowAs they did not come todayYou must rely on yourself, the...more

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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wa...more

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God the EaterThere is a god in whom I do not believeYet to this god my love stretches,This god whom I do not believe in isMy whole life, my life and I...more

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Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

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If I lie down on my bed I must be here,But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

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My heart was full of softening showers,I used to swing like this for hours,I did not care for war or death,I was glad to draw my breath.

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I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

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The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.