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„Why have your eyes gone into their own room?“
„It would be pleasant to be drunk:faithless to my tongue and hands,giving up the boundariesfor the heroic gin.Dead drunk is the term I think of,insensible,neither cool nor warm,without a head or foot.To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.I will try it shortly.“
„A woman who writes feels too much,those trances and portents!As if cycles and children and islandsweren’t enough; as if mourners and gossipsand vegetables were never enough.She thinks she can warm the stars.A writer is essentially a spy.Dear love, I am that girl.“
„I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.“
„There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.“
„I am murdering me, where I kneeled at your kiss.I am pushing knives through the handsthat created two into one.Our hands do not bleed at this,they lie still in their dishonor.“
„I am alive when your fingers are.“
„He puts his bones back on,Turning the clock back an hour.She knows flesh, that skin balloon,the unbound limbs, the boards,the roof, the removable roof.She is his selection, part time.You know the story too! Look,when it is over he places her,like a phone, back on the hook.“
„I grow old on my bitterness.“
„Fact: death too is in the egg.Fact: the body is dumb, the body is meat.And tomorrow the O. R. Only the summer was sweet.“
„Love your self’s self where it lives.There is no special God to refer to; or if there is,why did I let you growin another place. You did not know my voicewhen I came back to call. All the superlativesof tomorrow’s white tree and mistletoewill not help you know the holidays you had to miss.“
„With a tongue like a razor he will kissthe mother, the child,and we three will color the stars blackin memory of his motherwho kept him chained to the food treeor turned him on and off like a water faucetand made women through all these hazy yearsthe enemy with a heart of lies.“
„Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it’s all gone, the whole world falls apart.“
„Some women marry houses.“
„I rot on the wall, my ownDorian Gray.“
„You said the anger would come backjust as the love did.“
„The tongue, the Chinese say,is like a sharp knife:it killswithout drawing blood.“
„Beauty is a simple passion,but, oh my friends, in the endyou will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.“
„I have ridden in your cart, driver,waved my nude arms at villages going by,learning the last bright routes, survivorwhere your flames still bite my thighand my ribs crack where your wheels wind.A woman like that is not ashamed to die.I have been her kind.“
„Dearest,although everything has happened,nothing has happened.“
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