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Also, I am tired of all the dead. They refuse to listen,...

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What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.

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At her best she is all red muscle, humming in and out, cajole by time. Where I go, she goes.

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The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock...

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Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.

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Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after,...

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Death, I need my little addiction to you....

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The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.

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No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.

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In the mind there is a thin alley called death and I move through it as through water.

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when the moment comes we'll talk turkey,...

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Hurry, Godfather death, Mister tyranny,...

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you who put gum in my coffee cup and worms in my Jell-O, you who let me pretend...

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Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents,...

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Oh Mary, Gentle Mother,...

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the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

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How did it die? I called it EVIL. I said to it, your poems stink like vomit.

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I'm getting bored with it, I tell the typewriter,...

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With His penis like a chisel He carved the Pietà....

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Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat,...

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