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She leaps into the alien heart of the passerby, the drunk, the girl who spouts Freudian talk over Szechuan food. She is part herself,
The experience of fear is not an o… —J. Krishnamurti In dreams I descend into the cave of my past: a child with a morgue-tag
Not wanting to write for fear that anything– the passion for the page, the love of carbon ribbons & e… will distract me from your face,
I am not interested in my body– the part that stinks & rots & brings forth life,
Kabir says the breath inside the breath is God & I say to Kabir you are the breath inside that bre…
I sit in the black leather chair meditating on the plume of smoke that rises in the air, riffling the pages of my life
Mute marriages: the ten-ton block of ice obstructing the throat, the heart, the red filter of the liver, the clogged life.
These beautifully grown men. Thes… Look at them looking! They’re overdrawn on all accounts… & they’ve missed (for the hundredth time) the expre…
Black ship of night sailing through the world & the moon an orange slice tangy to the teeth of lovers who lie
Could I unthink you, little heart, what would I do? throw you out with last night’s garbage,
All night he lies awake tuning the… tuning the night with its fat crac… with its melancholy love songs cro… across the rainy air above Verdun & the autobahn’s blue suicidal…
You take me to the restaurant wher… plays God over a fish tank. The f… pace their green cage, waiting to… out of an element. Who knows what… There are thirteen in a tank meant
Here, at the end of the world, the flowers bleed as if they were hearts, the hearts ooze a darkness like india ink,
You call me courageous, I who grew up gnawing on books, as some kids
Narrowing life because of the fear… narrowing it between the dust mote… narrowing the pink baby between the green-limbed monsters, & the drooling idiots,