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Why does the mind do such thi...

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

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A hot wind was blowing around...

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

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Walter turned on the radio: e...

Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

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It had helped to keep her san...

It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here. Now it's a whisper from the past. Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice?

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But maybe, underneath, she lo...

But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.

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The future of narrative? Buil...

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives.

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I have never had any problems...

I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.

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Most mothers worry when their...

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.

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Now I can see how that can ha...

Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.

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Farewells can be shattering, ...

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

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No mother is ever, completely...

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.

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I see that there will be no e...

I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

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Nevertheless, blood is thicke...

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

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One of the gravestones in the...

One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?

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I did not know that 'poetess'...

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

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Knowing was a temptation. Wha...

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

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By telling you anything at al...

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.

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Our heaven is their hell, sai...

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

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You can't keep a cool head wh...

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

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I used to think of my body as...

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

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