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1 " If you and every person in the county mailedme an envelope of five to ten dollars, I thinkI could rehabilitate the sheep. "
― , Lighthead
2 " I am carrying the whimper you can hear when the mouth is collapsed, the wisdom of monkeys. Ask a glass of water why it pities the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash. Brothers and sisters, when you spend your nights out on a limb, there’s a chance you’ll fall in your sleep. "
3 " I’ll eat you to live: that’s poetry. "
4 " I believe everything is a metaphor for sex. "
5 " I wish I could weep the way my teacher did as he read us Molly Bloom’s soliloquy of yes. "
6 " Thus, I am here where poets come to drink a dark strong poison with tiny shards of ice, something to loosen my primate tongue and its syllablesof debris. I know all words come from preexisting words and divide until our pronouncements develop selves. "
7 " I am not going to describe her face because I want you to think of her as a bride. "
