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- Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
- Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
- The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
- ... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.
- Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.
- All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life,…
- God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my…
- We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
- If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the…
- Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.
- A freak but moist flower tangles my lungs, knits into my heart, crawls up my throat and sucks like octopi on my tongue. You planted…
- Your old skin puckering, yourlungs' breath Grown baby short as you looked up last At my face swinging over the human bed, And somewhere you…
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