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This is a message for Ancabell
ancabell, I'm looking for you. Are you out there? Please drop by and say Hello. I think of you. I miss you.
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I Eat Poetry - Catherine Pierce, “Because I’ll Never Swim in Every Ocean”
There is a globe welling up inside of me.
Mountain ranges ridging my skin,
oceans filling my mouth. If I stay still
long enough, I could become my own world.
Catherine Pierce, “Because I’ll Never Swim in Every Ocean” -
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"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
-Jose Ortega y Gasset
from Perceval Press
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“You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.”
- Bob Dylan, to Nora Ephron and Susan Edmiston in Positively Tie Dream, 1965. -
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"My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence."
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"I do think that when you go for a walk by yourself or travel, when you test yourself, all the distractions fall away. Everything gets focused. Whether ordeals are brief or long, they clarify; the purify your life."
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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ineffective windshield wipers, first tastes of chocolate, wine, asparagus, [...] chalk, [...] dirt, dandelion stem, [...] duck, beer, snow, blood...’
Introduction to Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004
By Viggo Mortensen
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Memory is like poetry, just one version of reality, not accurate at all.
V.M.
