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How did it die? I called it EVIL. I said to it, your poems stink like vomit.

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grown fully, as they say, they gave her a ring,...

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He had kind eyes and hands and was a friend of sorrow. Thus they were married. After all he had compromised her.

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Going down for the last time, the last breath lying, I grapple with eels like ropes—it's ether, it's queer...

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Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

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for it is dark, as dark as the leathery dead...

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For she has outlived the dates in the back of Fords, she has outlived the penises of her teens to come here, to the married harbor.

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Faces, suddenly suspended above you; faces that you think it's your business to love if only you could remember their names.

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For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole.

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Don't look now, God, we're all right. All the suicides are eating Black Bean Soup;...

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Darling, life is not in my hands; life with its terrible changes...

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Death, I need my little addiction to you....

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Death, you lie in my arms like a cherub, as heavy as bread dough. Your milky wings are as still as plastic.

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Death's a sad bone; bruised, you'd say, and yet she waits for me, year after year,

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Does he lie there forever, where his rifle waits, giant...

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But you you go ahead, go on, go on back down...

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Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after,...

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Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have....

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But I died yesterday, 'Daddy,' I died,...

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At her best she is all red muscle, humming in and out, cajole by time. Where I go, she goes.

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At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

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At the next town the local princess was having a contest....

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And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone

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and you'll bargain with the calendar and at the last moment...

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And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast...

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All those girls who wore the red shoes,...

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Also, I am tired of all the dead. They refuse to listen,...

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All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!

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... with her shoulders as bare as a building, with her thin foot and her thin toes,...

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... wounding God with his blue face, his tyranny, his absolute kingdom, with my aphrodisiac.

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