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Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.

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I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

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And who so happy,- O who, as the Duck and the Kangaroo?

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Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

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God's lioness, How one we grow, Pivot of heels and knees!—

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What did my hands do before they held you?

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First, are you our sort of a person? Do you wear...

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Dying Is an art, like everything else....

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Black and stiff, but not a bad fit. Will you marry it?

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His hair long and plausive. Bastard Masturbating a glitter, He wants to be loved.

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He tells me how sweet The babies look in their hospital Icebox,

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I have simply ordered a box of maniacs. They can be sent back. They can die, I need feed them nothing, I am the owner.

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It works, there is nothing wrong with it. You have a hole, it's a poultice....

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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

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To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

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Each dead child coiled, a white serpent, One at each little Pitcher of milk, now empty.

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I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.

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Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.

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I Am the arrow,...

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So daddy, I'm finally through. The black telephone's off at the root, The voices just can't worm through. If I've killed one man, I've killed two -- The vampire who said he was you And drank my blood for a year, Seven years, if you want to know. Daddy, you can lie back now. There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.

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