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• The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
• Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ...
• In a dream you are never eighty.
• Death's in the good-bye.
• Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
• You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your…
• I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
• My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on…
• Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
• emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...
• Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
• I have been cut in two.

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