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No one's despair is like my despair--
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it is a bitter thing to be the disposable animal, a bitter thing.
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Go ahead: say what you're thinking. The gardenis not the real world. Machines are the real world.
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You come and go, every one of you flawed in some way, in some way compromised: you are worth one life, no more than that.
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You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with increasing frankness.I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.
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They saythere is a rift in the human soulwhich was not constructed to belongentirely to life.
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All your life, you wait for the propitious time.Then the propitious timereveals itself as action taken.
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Watching youstare into space in the tidyrows of the vegetable garden, ostensiblyworking hard while actuallydoing the worst job possible, I thinkyou are a small irritating purple thingand I would like to see you walk off the face of the earthbecause you are all that's wrong with my lifeand I need you and I claim you.
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Remember that time you made the wish? I make a lot of wishes.The time I lied to youabout the butterfly. I always wonderedwhat you wished for. What do you think I wished for?I don't know. That I'd come back,that we'd somehow be together in the end. I wished for what I always wish for. I wished for another poem.
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