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1 " there's a theorythat says you don't existunless someone callsand you respond "
― Sam Sax
2 " love at first sightis only possibleif the governmenthasn't firsttaken your eyes "
― Sam Sax , Madness
3 " what does it mean to be descendantof something monstrous?to still love the monster? "
4 " you either love the world or you live in it "
5 " & he watches each musclevolt into place. the surgeon became the surgeon afteryears of openingbooks & making senseof their contents "
6 " BESTIARY "charybdis: when i suck in / i make deadly / whirlpools / ask anyone who’s managed / to climb out / alivedragon:patrol or pillage / he exhales and a whole village / burns / iron scaledsentry / guardian of the ivory / tower i wrap my legs around / everyone thinks / he’s a brute / but for me / he lifts his breast plate / for me he welcome the quiver / and the arrow’s teeth.golem:take his hair in your hands / his dead / skin cells / his discardedundergarments / take them / and make of them a new boy this effigy / his likeness and nothing / like him / breathe life into its clenched carapace // my god / i think i saw it / movemedusa: when i saw / my face / reflected in terror / in his eyes / i turned to stone / or a pillar of salt watching my village burn / he was the village burning / maybe that’s a different story / maybe in the end only the snakes weptsiren:he cries / and i / lashed to the mast of a ship / steer my body toward the sound / sheets bound around wrists and ankles tears make grief / a lighthouse you wear / when i hear him a huge wood wheel turns in my stomach / and i break / openon / his jagged coastwerewolf: there are many words for transformation / metamorphosis metaphor / medication / go to sleep / beside the man you love wake up next to a dog / maybe the moon brought it out of him hound hungry for blood / maybe its your fault / or maybe it was there inside him / howling all along "
7 " i know everyone i love who’s dead didn’t actually become the poem i wrote about them. "
― Sam Sax , Bury It
8 " i only want the worldto end when i'm donewith it "
9 " i’d lash myself to any new mast "
10 " my hands love to make war of love. "
― Sam Sax , A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters
11 " i carry much nostalgia for the times i don’t remember "
12 " anything can be a drug if you love it. "
13 " there must be something else worth praising besides pleasure & destruction "
14 " you have to wonder how a boy or the shape of a boy wound up here in this unstable field. "
15 " please tell me how am i supposed to go on knowing you are [ ] "
16 " of course i know i’m going to die. until then i’m attempting only to stave off the flies. i’m trading what’s left of my youth for a glass tube to cast a quiet spell inside. "
17 " his laugh a memory so liquid i’ll hear it when anyone opens a window to scare the birds "
18 " if you look close at the process of fermentation you’ll see tiny animals destroying the living body until it’s transformed into something more volatile "
19 " can you believe there’s freedom in being so out of control "
