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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

Wislawa Szymborska

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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
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Hard Myself Oneself Sentence
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
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge World
Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Disappear Start Stay Stubborn Time
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Fortune Inspirational Place Poet Select
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Beginning Book Half Myself Open
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
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 drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Agreement Best Common Imagination Reality Regard
Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Action Demand Myself Poor Preparation Reality
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking

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