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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?

Wislawa Szymborska

It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
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
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Arrival Consequence Fact Practice
We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Fortune Kind Live Precise Question World
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
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
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 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’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
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

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