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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Anne Carson

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Anand Thakur
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Anand Thakur

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

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