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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

Anne Carson

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur
I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Anand Thakur
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Anand Thakur
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Anand Thakur
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

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