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• In a dream you are never eighty.
• 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…
• emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...
• It is June. I am tired of being brave.
• As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
• The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
• The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map…

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