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  1In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.
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  4Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.
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  7SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.
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 10If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.
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 13You are a victim of the rules you live by.
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 16Destroy superabundance. Starve the flesh, shave the hair, clarify the mind, define the will, restrain the senses, leave the family, flee the church, kill the vermin,vomit the heart, forget the dead. Limit time, forgo amusement, deny nature, reject acquaintances, discard objects, forget truths, dissect myth, stop motion, block impulse, choke sobs, swallow chatter. Scorn joy, scorn touch, scorn tragedy, scorn liberty, scorn constancy, scorn hope, scorn exaltation, scorn reproduction, scorn variety, scorn embellishment, scorn release, scorn rest, scorn sweetness, scorn light. It's a question of form as much as function. It is a matter of revulsion.
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 19Boredom makes you do crazy things.
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 22You confuse me with something that is in you. I will not predict how you want to use me.
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 25It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.
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 28BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS
 29EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED
 30AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU.
 31YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE,
 32WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO,
 33AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE
 34IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.
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 37Protect me from what I want.
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 40Ruin your fucking self before they do. Otherwise they'll screw you because you're a nobody. They'll keep you alive but you'll have to crawl and say "thank-you" for every bone they throw. You might as well stay drunk or shoot junk and be a crazy fucker. If the rich guys want to play with you, make them get their hands dirty. Send them away gagging, or sobbing if they're soft-hearted. You'll be left alone if you're frightening, and dead you're free!
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 43Food won't go down when you know your mother didn't want you, never liked to feed you, always hated you in her rooms. You were wrong to clutch and swallow and move your mouth. You must not be flushed, layered in fat or ripe from meat or she will despise your sight. Your skeleton cries, "I make no demands, I am ashamed of my needs, I am unworthy. I'm aware of those more deserving, those with prior and urgent claims to food." Skeleton says, "My safety is in slightness, my pride is denial. My victory is no gluttony, no guilt.
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 46Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.
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 49Raise boys and girls the same way.
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 52SOME DAYS YOU WAKE AND
 53IMMEDIATELY START TO WORRY.
 54NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IS WRONG,
 55ITS JUST THE SUSPICION THAT
 56FORCES ARE ALIGNING QUIETLY
 57AND THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.
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 60THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR
 61THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG
 62BUT YOU CONTINUE.
 63SOMETIMES THERE IS A
 64LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME
 65BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.
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 68Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
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 71Knowing yourself lets you understand others.
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 74Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.
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 77Going with the flow is soothing but risky.
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 80I WALK IN / I SEE YOU / I WATCH YOU / I SCAN YOU / I WAIT FOR YOU / I TICKLE YOU / I TEASE YOU / I SEARCH YOU / I BREATHE YOU / I TALK / I SMILE / I TOUCH YOUR HAIR / YOU ARE THE ONE / YOU ARE THE ONE WHO DID THIS TO ME / YOU ARE MY OWN / I SHOW YOU / I FEEL YOU / I ASK YOU / I DONT ASK / I DONT WAIT / I WONT ASK YOU / I CANT TELL YOU / I LIE / I AM CRYING HARD / THERE WAS BLOOD / NO ONE TOLD ME / NO ONE KNEW / MY MOTHER KNOWS / I FORGET YOUR NAME / I DONT THINK / I BURY MY HEAD / I BURY YOUR HEAD / I BURY YOU / MY FEVER / MY SKIN / I CANNOT BREATHE / I CANNOT EAT / I CANNOT WALK / I AM LOSING TIME / I AM LOSING TIME / I AM LOSING GROUND / I CANNOT STAND IT / I CRY / I CRY OUT / I BITE / I BITE YOUR LIP / I BREATHE YOUR BREATH / I PULSE / I PRAY / I PRAY ALOUD / I SMELL YOU ON MY SKIN / I SAY THE WORD / I SAY YOUR NAME / I COVER YOU / I SHELTER YOU / I RUN FROM YOU / I SLEEP BESIDE YOU / I SMELL YOU ON MY CLOTHES / I KEEP YOUR CLOTHES
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 83Expressing anger is necessary.
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 86With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define the outside environment as alien.
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 89At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.
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 92YOU SHOULD LIMIT THE NUMBER OF TIMES
 93YOU ACT AGAINST YOUR NATURE,
 94LIKE SLEEPING WITH PEOPLE YOU HATE.
 95ITS INTERESTING TO TEST YOUR CAPABILITIES FOR A WHILE
 96BUT TOO MUCH WILL CAUSE DAMAGE.
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 99A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.
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102A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.
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105How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.
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108I try to excite myself so I stay crazy.
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111Being happy is more important than anything else.
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114Fear is the greatest incapacitator.
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117Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.
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120Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity.
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123Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.
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126FEMALE VOICE: 'The truth is people are pushed around by two men who move all the bodies on earth into patterns that please them.'
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128MALE VOICE: 'I love my mind when it is fucking the cracks of events.'
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130MALE VOICE: 'What I give to all the people who do not want to live with me is arithmetic.'
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132FEMALE VOICE: 'Everyday, I do nothing important because I am scared blank and lazy. But then the men come. I put my mouth on them. I spit and write with the wet.'
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134MALE VOICE: 'I was not born live. This body grew but I did not feel cells split.
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137She has no taste left to her and this makes it easier for me.
138The color of her where she is inside is enough to make me kill her.
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141A lot of professionals are crackpots.
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144IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY FEELING
145WHEN PART OF YOUR BODY ARE
146TOUCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
147I'M THINKING OF THE SENSATIONS
148FROM SEX AND SURGERY.
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151I KNOW WHO YOU ARE
152AND IT DOES ME
153NO GOOD AT ALL
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156Go where people sleep and see if they are safe
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159WHAT A SHOCK WHEN THEY TELL YOU
160IT WON'T HURT AND YOU ALMOST
161TURN INSIDE OUT WHEN THEY BEGIN.
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164MORE THAN ONCE I'VE AWAKENED WITH
165TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY CHEEKS.
166I HAVE HAD TO THINK WHETHER
167I WAS CRYING OR WHETHER IT
168IS INVOLUNTARY, LIKE DROOLING.
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171IT CAN BE STARTLING TO
172SEE SOMEONES BREATH,
173LET ALONE THE BREATHING OF A CROWD.
174YOU USUALLY DONT BELIEVE THAT
175PEOPLE EXTEND THAT FAR.
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178With you inside me comes the knowledge of my death.
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181Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.
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184Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.
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187Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.
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190IT'S NO FUN WATCHING PEOPLE WOUND
191THEMSELVES SO THAT THEY CAN HOLE UP,
192NURSE THEMSELVES BACK TO HEALTH,
193AND REPEAT THE CYCLE.
194THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.
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197An elite is inevitable.
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200Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.
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203WITH BLEEDING INSIDE THE HEAD
204THERE IS A METALLIC TASTE AT
205THE BACK OF THE THROAT.
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208WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,
209YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN
210ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE
211AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO
212IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE.
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215MANY DOGS RUN WILD IN THE CITY.
216SOME ARE ABANDONED BY THEIR OWNERS
217AND OTHERS ARE BORN TO LOST DOGS.
218STRAYS HAVE A LIMITED LIFE EXPECTANCY
219EVEN WHEN THEY BAND TOGETHER IN PACKS.
220THEY ARE PREY TO DISEASE, PARASITES,
221WEATHER AND AUTOMOBILES.
222THEY TEND TO BE FRIGHTENED AND VICIOUS.
223THEY ARE UNABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES
224OR ANYONE ELSE.
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227SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO NIBBLE ON
228THE INSIDES OF THEIR OWN CHEEKS.
229IV'E SEEN AN OTHERWISE LOVELY GIRL
230CONTORT HER FACE TO REACH A FAVORITE SPOT.
231THERE ARE BIT LINES WHERE REPEATED NIPS
232HAVE BUILT RIDGES OF SCAR TISSUE.
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235When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.
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238THE FOND OLD COUPLE WAS
239DISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGH
240SUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.
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243IT'S NICE WHEN YOU DECIDE TO LIKE SOMEONE
244AND, WITHOUT DECLARING YOURSELF,
245DO WHAT'S POSSIBLE
246TO FURTHER HIS HAPPINESS.
247THIS CAN TAKE THE FORM OF GIFTS,
248LOVELY FOOD, PUBLICITY, OR
249ADVANCED WARNING.
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252HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROM
253AWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS,
254MEMORIES, HUMILIATION,
255DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.
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258IT IS IN YOUR SELF-INTEREST /
259TO FIND A WAY /
260TO BE VERY TENDER
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263THERE'S NO REASON TO SLEEP
264CURLED UP AND BENT.
265IT'S NOT COMFORTABLE,
266IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU, AND IT
267DOESN'T PROTECT YOU FROM DANGER.
268IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT AN ATTACK
269YOU SHOULD STAY AWAKE
270OR SLEEP LIGHTLY WITH
271LIMBS UNFURLED FOR ACTION.
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274OBVIOUSLY YOU STRIKE OUT
275AGAINST PEOPLE WITHIN RANGE.
276IT'S CATHARTIC TO AFFECT
277SOMEONE WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY.
278ALTERNATIVELY, CHOOSE
279ENEMIES IMPOSSIBLY FAR AWAY
280SO YOU NEVER HAVE TO FIGHT.
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283HOW DO YOU FIND THE RIGHT POSITION
284TO LIE DOWN WITH PEOPLE
285OR EVEN ANIMALS?
286OFTEN ONE OF THE PARTNERS IS
287SMOTHERED OR CONTORTED.
288WHEN DONE PROPERLY, THOUGH,
289EVERYONE IS HAPPY.
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292IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THINK OF
293THEM EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
294AND OCCASIONALLY THROWING UP
295AND GETTING BITS STUCK
296IN THEIR NOSES.
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299IF THE HOUSE IS BITTER COLD,
300ALL THE FLUIDS THEREIN,
301IF NOT FROZEN, ARE STIFF AND SLOW.
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304THE IMPULSE IS TO SQUEEZE AND
305FONDLE BABY WILD ANIMALS
306BUT THEN THEY'D BE BROKEN AND
307WHAT GOOD WOULD THEY BE?
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310FEW CAN IGNORE A BABY'S CRIES,
311EVEN IF THE RESPONSE IS IRRITATION.
312THIS IS ONE OF THE BUILT IN SAFEGUARDS
313THAT IS SUPPOSED TO GUARANTEE
314THE SURVIVAL OF THE RACE.
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317I SAW THEIR STUNNING BODIES GO SLACK
318AND GET HAIR IN THE WRONG PLACES
319AND I VOWED I WOULD NOT PERMIT
320THAT TO HAPPEN TO ME.
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