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Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

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It was a bad performance. That's because I'm the only actor...

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Jonah made his living inside the belly. Mine comes from the exact same place.

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Judas had a mother His mother had a dream. Because of this dream he was altogether managed by fate and thus he raped her.

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Just once I knew what life was for.

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Kicking the heart with pain's big boots running up and down the intestines like a motorcycle racer.

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kill was tangled into her beginning.

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It is panting; it is an odor with a face like the skin of a donkey. It laps my sores....

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It is snowing and death bugs me as stubborn as insomnia....

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It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

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In the mind there is a thin alley called death and I move through it as through water.

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Is it possible he marries a cripple out of admiration?

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I'm getting bored with it, I tell the typewriter,...

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I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies...

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I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib...

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I swam but the tide came in like ten thousand orgasms. I swam but the waves were higher than horses' necks.

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I was the girl of the chain letter,...

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I have put a padlock on you, Mother, dear dead human,...

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I hear the death of me, the murderous weeds, the stallion breathing sulphur, the hara-kiri rape,...

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I tied down time with a rope but it came back....

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I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,...

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Hurry, Godfather death, Mister tyranny,...

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I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.

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I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home...

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I am the only actor. It is difficult for one woman to act out a whole play. The play is my life, my solo act.

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He wants to fly into the hand of Michelangelo and come out painted on a ceiling....

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her young years bungle past their same marriage bed...

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His soul dropped down from heaven. Thank you, said Lazarus,...

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His white head hung out like a carpet bag and his crotch turned blue as a blood blister,...

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