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21 " I'm fated, and I'm entirely yours. "
― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts
22 " I am the desire you wantto have, so you can feel yourself continuouslyinside the line of desiring "
23 " I did not do those things; I only watched, watched myself act, react. "
24 " I couldn't sleep in my dream. "
25 " Emotion isn't really what I felt . . .Living, one is so detached. "
26 " I am standing somewhere underground, inan underworld, with all the others. I neverwanted this. "
27 " Distortion's all that I know. "
28 " leading to infinite nowhere. "
29 " In language I combine my fleshwith yours, and you with mine; my fleshis tender, my skin aches from knowing you "
30 " No longer the dream we were invited to long ago "
31 " but you are incomplete unattached to me . . . "
32 " You talk to me in your sleep, the only time you talk to me. "
33 " I don'tknow a thing yet, and I haven't lived. I'm startingto now, aren't I? No, you're asleep, you'realways asleep. "
34 " I wasn't any person any more. "
35 " this apocalyptic need for magic "
36 " Prophesy if you dare. "
37 " This is my heart, or is it yours, I move within. "
38 " love's the dirtiest thing in the world "
39 " I can no longer find anyrationale for living. My life is as small as a firefly's.I am always uncomfortable; often I suffer. "
40 " I create death, and time. "