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GOLD AND BLACK
At night the gold and black slashed bees come
pluck my head away. Vague thousands drift
leave brain naked stark as liver
each one carries atoms of flesh, they
walk my body in their fingers.
The mind stinks out.
In the black Kim is turning
a geiger counter to this pillow.
She cracks me open like a lightbulb.
Love, the real,
terrifies
the dreamer in his riot cell.
Michael Ondaatje
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Rose, oh pure contradiction, desire,
To be no one's sleep under so many
Lids.
Rainer Maria Rilke's Self-Composed Epitaph
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"He was not at all sure he was doing the right thing, but he was sure he was doing what he wanted to do."
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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RELIC
I found this jawbone at the seas edge:
There, crabs, dogfish, broken by breakers or tossed
To flap for half an hour and turn to a crust,
Continue the beginning. The deeps are cold:
In that darkness camaraderie does not hold;
Nothing touches but, clutching, devours. And the jaws,
Before they are satisfied or their stretched purpose
Slacken, go down jaws; go gnawn bare. Jaws
Eat and are finished and the jawbone comes to the beach:
This is the seas achievement; with shells,
Vertebrae, claws, carapaces, skulls.
Time in the sea eats its tail, thrives, casts these
Indigestibles, the spars of purposes
That failed far from the surface. None grow rich
In the sea. This curved jawbone did not laugh
But gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph.
Ted Hughes
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The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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"I have taught you that the sky in all its zones is mortal ...let me now re-emphasize the extreme looseness of the structure of all objects."
Conrad
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