“I’m saying your name in the grocery store, I’m saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that’s been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull...”
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“Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
“The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.”
― Crush
― Crush
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