I was born with my eyes turned inward.

David Joseph Cribbin

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Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.

David Joseph Cribbin

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Poetry is a beacon slicer.

David Joseph Cribbin

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Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

David Joseph Cribbin

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A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.

David Joseph Cribbin

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I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.

David Joseph Cribbin

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