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I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.
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I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come…
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We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven...
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Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?
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Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.
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Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.
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Someone is digging your grave right now.
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From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.
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You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.
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You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just…
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Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get…
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Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.
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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums,…
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When one has looked upon Jesus, though he be of little stature like Zacchaeus of old (cf. Lk. 19:3), and climb up…
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All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please…
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It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was…
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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
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