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Yusef Komunyakaa
“Whoever said men
hit harder when women
are around, is right.

Word for word,
we beat the love
out of each other.”
Yusef Komunyakaa, Pleasure Dome

Vladimir Nabokov
“And blood-black nothingness began to spin. A system of cells interlinked, within cells interlinked, within cells interlinked within one stem. And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

Charles Bukowski
“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.”
Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

Tom Waits
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
Tom Waits

Thomas Pynchon
“Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more.”
Thomas Pynchon, V.

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