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Every word I write restores me to the absence of why I write what I wouldn't write if I allowed you to come here.

My words demand the silence of a wasteland.

Behold space trembling like a great madman.

You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn't may be

what if that which ought to be doesn't exist

to write is to give meaning to suffering

Mouth sewn shut. Eyelids sewn shut. I forgot myself. The wind inside. Everything shut, and the wind inside.

I don't know about birds
nor do I know the history of fire.
But I believe that my solitude should have wings

Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors

Like a poem that's aware
of the silence of things
you speak so as not to see me

I stored up the purest words
for making new silences

The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead.

You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began