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At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.
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We laugh and we touch. I promise you love. Time will not take away that.
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... the heart monitor, the death cricket bleeping.
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My life has appeared unclothed in court,...
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The house of my body has spoken often as you rebuild me like blocks, and promise to come visit when I'm finally adjusted on safe land, and am livable, joist to joist with storm windows and screens ...
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The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
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Just once I knew what life was for.
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What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed?...
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All those girls who wore the red shoes,...
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Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have....
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The joy that isn't shared dies young.
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this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.
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she will not say how there must be more to living...
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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
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So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it....
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this errand we're on goes to one store.
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And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast...
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and you'll bargain with the calendar and at the last moment...
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... wounding God with his blue face, his tyranny, his absolute kingdom, with my aphrodisiac.
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Your old skin puckering, your lungs' breath Grown baby short as you looked up last...
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the cement wall of the clumsy calendar I live in, my life, and its hauled up notebooks.
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But I died yesterday, "Daddy," I died,...
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And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone
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... into that rushing beast of the night, sucked up by that great dragon, to split...
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