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101 " that makes me feel like I'm living in your dream. "
― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts
102 " I rest all night in the eye of a hurricane. "
103 " I want to know why my loves had to die. "
104 " I wonder who Iwill know when I die, if anyone. "
105 " You used totake my breathaway. Nowno one does. "
106 " I don't want to bother anyone anymore, I tryto stay still. "
107 " I want to know the thingthat will justify my time, all the time I've spentdoing shit jobs. Stupid work. "
108 " I don't remember how to speak for myself anymore "
109 " I don't believe I'll ever leave:will I really leave? "
110 " I have so many ideas! I'm so full of thoughtI can't remember what I look like. "
111 " Okay, I have to flee the storm again.Or I could stay. "
112 " My history and civilizationare literally melting; everyone knows. "
113 " I want to migrate, but there's nowhereleft to go. If I could only find an unclaimed space. "
114 " I already have no point of viewexcept that of the fallen. I have no individuality,because I'm a deadened thing. "
115 " Everything wehave done we can come to despise "
116 " We go where we live—there is nowhere else. "
117 " I'm your perceptions, shuddering. "
118 " Which one of us was more? Hewas always more. "
119 " We are our songs and films. "
120 " I have the face of a man whodrinks blood, of a woman of guile and deception; of anarrogant beggar who doesn't owe you a thing. "