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“That time and that time and that time the outside blistered the inside of you, words outmanoeuvred years, had you in a chokehold, every part roughed up, the eyes dripping.” quote by Claudia Rankine — Download Open image

““That time and that time and that time the outside blistered the inside of you, words outmanoeuvred years, had you in a chokehold, every part roughed up, the eyes dripping.””

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Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can stay in a moment for as long as you want. Poetry is about metaphor, about a thing standing in for something else. It's the thing that opens out to something else. What that something else is changes for…

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Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

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“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

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The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself…

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Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?

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The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

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