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you come, a brave ghost, to fix in my mind without praise or paradise to make me your inheritor.
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you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street...
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you who put gum in my coffee cup and worms in my Jell-O, you who let me pretend...
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Your apple face, the simple crèche Of your arms, the August smells...
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Your old skin puckering, your lungs' breath Grown baby short as you looked up last...
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Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
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You make a toast for tomorrow and smash the cup, letting your false women lap the dish I had to fatten up.
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when it comes to my death let it be slow, let it be pantomime, this last peep show,...
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Where and to whom you are married I can only guess in my piecemeal fashion. I grow old on my bitterness.
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Why do you gather, my townsmen? There is no news here....
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Why do you smile that liverish smile? Why do you double over in a spaz and a swoon,...
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With His penis like a chisel He carved the Pietà....
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What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.
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What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed?...
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when the moment comes we'll talk turkey,...
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We laugh and we touch. I promise you love. Time will not take away that.
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To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.
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They are as neat as a wallet, opening and closing on their coins,...
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They are girls. Green girls. Death and life is their daily work....
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they were placed in a box and painted identically blue...
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this errand we're on goes to one store.
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this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.
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The witch turned as red as the Jap flag....
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There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.
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The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock...
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The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.
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The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.
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Then he told the news media the strange details of his death...
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The others died, the luck of it blurting through them. I could not, I was a silly broken umbrella...
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The parasol girls slept, sun-sitting their lovely years.
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