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141 " Though Here's so total. "
― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts
142 " Someone's screaming from the basement, who's goingaway tomorrow; and I'm no particular age.I have no fear. "
143 " I'm beginning to hate you, and that's bad for me. "
144 " try to help us; you the past led us here . . . "
145 " Iapproach my holy, haunted railroad stations,underground networks, airports, trying to leave.I don't know what I'm leaving or where I'm going.I don't seem to mind, I'm in the state oftraveling. Suspended. That's always been my state. "
146 " Evaporated I've never been there. "
147 " AndI go in, it's just a portal after all. I don'tknow what's inside. Whatever happens next.Nothing happens; things coalesce then meltagain "
148 " But this is a story of the end. don'tyou want to hear it "
149 " I'm not who I thoughtI'm not there or here "
150 " I have no needs.No country, no continent, no hope. I sit inblackness where I once lived. In magic, the onlyforce I recognize. What is it? a facecries, skittering away. All that's left, I reply "
151 " Doesshe come to them sooner, for all their rage to find her? "
152 " What can we do about our world?Why do you all make me struggle? "
153 " I can't help but be both of you. I wantedto be able to take a side and will never again. "
154 " Magic isn't easily identified "
155 " If I drop both swords and rip off the blindfold, I still can'tleave, for I can't leave this world except internally. "
156 " I was always pushed towards this place.Or backwards. "
157 " Who wants tosee us anyway? "
158 " I'mgiving all I am to all of this. It's for you. "
159 " Change will arrive suddenly for me. "
160 " We are the ones there are, and will always be. "