Jeffrey McDaniel Quotes

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• Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence
• I graduated first in my class from alibi school.
• Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
• I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane
• But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a brick…
• I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their…
• Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.
• There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.
• I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.
• Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the street is funny.…
• I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.
• I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers…
• I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.
• If you heard your lover scream in the next room and you ran in and saw his pinkie on the floor, in a small puddle…
• We didn’t deny the obvious, but we didn’t entirely accept it either. I mean, we said hello to it each morning in the foyer. We…
• When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams. That is the…
• No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like…
• I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of…
• I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.
• When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs…

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