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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.


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God serves the choosy. They know what to want.



One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.



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... people get confidential at midnight.



Cherish your wilderness.

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