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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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My life has appeared unclothed in court,...

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But I died yesterday, "Daddy," I died,...

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and you'll bargain with the calendar and at the last moment...

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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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she will not say how there must be more to living...

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... the heart monitor, the death cricket bleeping.

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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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Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

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this errand we're on goes to one store.

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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

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... wounding God with his blue face, his tyranny, his absolute kingdom, with my aphrodisiac.

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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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All those girls who wore the red shoes,...

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Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

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Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

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... into that rushing beast of the night, sucked up by that great dragon, to split...

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Still, it would be perfectly fine with me to die like a nice girl...

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... with her shoulders as bare as a building, with her thin foot and her thin toes,...

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