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Living backwards means only I must suffer everything twice. Those picnics were already loss: with the dragonflies and the clear… What good did it do me to know
He, who navigated with success the dangerous river of his own bir… once more set forth on a voyage of discovery into the land I floated on
The puppet of the wolf I have not made yet encloses my right hand: fur stubbles my wrists, a tongue, avid, carnivorous,
The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your ro… house, half-acre, square mile, isl… knowing at last how you got there,
This is the lair of the landlady She is a raw voice loose in the rooms beneath me. the continuous henyard
An other sense tugs at us: we have lost something, some key to these things which must be writings and are locked against us
Those whose houses were burned burned houses. What else ever happ… once you start? While the roofs plunged into the root-filled cellars,
My shadow said to me: what is the matter Isn’t the moon warm enough for you why do you need
The rest of us watch from beyond t… as the woman moves with her jagged… into her pain as if into a slow ra… We see her body in motion but hear no sounds, or we hear
She reclines, more or less, Try that posture, it’s hardly lang… Her right arm sharp angles. With her left she conceals her amb… Shoes but not stockings,
She squats, bare feet splayed out, not graceful; skirt tucked around ankl… Her face is lined and cracked. She looks old,
How did I get so dutiful? Was I… Going around as a child with a sma… sweeping up dirt I didn’t make, or out into the yard with a stunte… weeding the gardens of others
I do not mean the symbol of love, a candy shape to decorate cakes with, the heart that is supposed to belong or break;
Let others pray for the passenger… the dodo, the whooping crane, the… everyone must specialize I will confine myself to a meditat… upon the giant tortoises
This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons