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After every war someone has to tidy up.

Wislawa Szymborska

It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Doctor Fact Follow Health Order Yourself
I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Book Fashion Myself Old Past Reading Thinking Time
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Common Poet Publish Reading Understand
I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Creature Myself Simplicity Son
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Boredom Day Description
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Boredom Human Love Misery Work
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Color Ground Past Politics Walk Yourself
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Blink Carry Funny Galaxy Moments
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Myself Poem Quick Reading Time Work Writing
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time

After every war someone has to tidy up.

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