it's colder than hell (yes) but
the blankets are thin,
and the pulled-down shades
are as full of holes as love is.

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there are policemen in the street
and angels in the clouds

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it was like any other
relationship, there was
jealousy on both sides,
there were split-ups and
reconciliations.
there were also fragmented moments of
great peace and beauty.

I often tried to get away from her and
she tied to get away from me
but it was difficult:
Cupid, in his strange way, was really
there.

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we were in her big oak
bed
facing south
so much of the rest of the
time
that I memorized
each wrinkle in the
drapes
and especially
all the cracks in the
ceiling.

I used to play games with
her with that ceiling.

"see those cracks up
there?"

"where?"

"look where I'm pointing..."

"o.k."

"now, see those cracks, see the
pattern? it forms and image. do you see
what it is?"

"umm, umm ..."

"go on, what is it?"

"I know! It's a man on top of a woman!"

"wrong. it's a flamingo standing
by a stream."

. . .

we finally got free of
one another.
it's sad but it's
standard operating procedure
(I am constantly confused by
the lack of durability in human
affairs).

I suppose the parting was
unhappy
maybe even ugly.
it's been 3 or 4
years now
and I wonder if she
ever thinks of
me, of what I am doing?

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one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

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The more crap you believe, the better off you are.

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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

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Mots clés rich madness poverty poor mental-illness

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Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

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Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

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