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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.

Wislawa Szymborska

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
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Angel Count Head Myself Sleep
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Dog Edition Myself Old Revision Work World
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Comic Remember Rich Talk Variety Yourself
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Finding Live Love People True
Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Animal Cat Death Yourself
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Choice Demand Loss Myself Rejection Way
Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Animal Appearance Conscious Different Human Oneself Try
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst

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