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41 " I'm free in this house thatdoesn't exist. "
― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts
42 " All I feel is the tingle of this existence, ornon-existence "
43 " Idon't want to speak this language that doesn'tknow me. "
44 " But I've always beena poet, that's all, no sex or race, no age orface. Can Eternity strip me of it? That's onlyanother word. I'm inside myself, and inside it. "
45 " Timeless, and loveless, this light touches me.I won't need anything else. "
46 " it's anywherein the broken clock "
47 " I am void of what you would expect. "
48 " Now I feelI was inserted into life exactly not to do that.For I have been robbed of everything that mademe social "
49 " I still loveyou, for I see your soul "
50 " Ihear the noise of your thinking; but I don't listen.Your thoughts wouldn't bear remembering. "
51 " I wish you didn'thave to go through things I've been through. "
52 " I like the beauty of being restoredto myself, in the pollen light "
53 " This clearing is full of false lights, flickers that stopwhen you look. "
54 " walking densely through streets hanging on to self,I've tried to be a horde but I'm a blank star, billions of those on fire. "
55 " Didn't want anyone to find me, not yet. "
56 " I have no hope then? the patient asks. There is no hopeor change. Have I not changed? the patient asks. Howcould anything so empty change? "
57 " because youalready know what I mean. You read my mind. "
58 " I feel like an old, opaque secret. "
59 " which I remember from my human past and from longing. "
60 " Your phantasmagoricwound has closed. "