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1 " When people talk about poetry as a project, they suggest that the road through a poem is a single line. When really the road through a poem is a series of lines, like a constellation, all interconnected. Poems take place in the realm of chance, where the self and the universal combine, where life exist. I can’t suggest to you that going through a line that is more like a constellation than a road is easy—or that the blurring of the self and the universal doesn’t shred a poet a little bit in the process. The terrain of a poem is unmapped (including the shapes of the trees along the constellation-road). A great poet knows never to expect sun or rain or cold or wind in the process of creating a poem. In a great poem all can come to the fore at once. It would be worse yet, if none are there at all. "
― Dorothea Lasky
2 " Not sure what of this you did offer me Never did amount to anythingSo with thisI go "
― Dorothea Lasky , Rome: Poems
3 " I watch porn Cause I'll never be in love "
4 " Perverse obsessionsAnd it is only nowThat I realize I am bleedingNow no air now deadAnd that it was your careful strikeThat made it so "
5 " With them, it is all horrible Like anything could happen "
6 " There are things you want to say but don'tThere are things I want to say but I already said themA year ago or two or five, when we first metThere were times I thought you knew I loved youYou never knewWe never wereI diedYou diedThat's it "
7 " And that is what we do with a loverAnd no you're not thatThat you made sure "
8 " To get rejected so vehementlyOver and over againUntil some said it was the rejection I was afterNo it wasn'tI wanted the intensity that you sometimes promised "
9 " They took the red string which bound me to youThey sank it in the center of the ocean "
10 " ComplainersSome people don't want to dieBecause you can't complain when you're deadI hope heaven is just a bunch of men lying aroundReady to do what I sayReady with dicks and some suchWhen I'm dead I won't be looking for a partnerAs much as a heavenly creatureAfter all I was promised virginsBut I don't care about that as muchAs the eyes looking into me in abandonLike porn but betterBecause there will be no screenThere will be no holy divider thenBetween me and my brethrenAnd the smell of sunshineWill emit from every browThat's the kind of thing I expect from deathThat's the kind of thing I'm waiting for "
11 " But what if I don't like anything as much as I pretend to "
12 " There was a lonely summerWhere I took the string and unraveled the magic circle from everythingIt was because of you, and what you did to me "
13 " There were things I wished I'd saidAnd doneBut it is too late nowSo I goHeavy with my offering This book, this book "
14 " It is as if I had made you believe In me once again It is as if you knew I was your true loveIt was as if I didn't have to knowIn this lifeAll you were to meWas that flower "
15 " I put myself inI mean for what, why,Or whoDid I manage to do this for if not you "
16 " You will realize you love me But it will be too lateYou will cry out for meI will be long goneThis is not a wishBut what I knew to be so "
17 " I never noticed anything but you But you but youSo that I couldn't sleep "
18 " I wrapped myself in leaden sheetsAnd sank deep into my own infernal ocean "
19 " Because poetry reminds youThat there is no dignityIn livingYou just muddle through and for what "
20 " In the deepest part I still loved himHad gone with himTo the blazing star lodge "
