“The mole rat is a reclusive creature that disapproves of all other beings and particularly abhors its own kind.”
“stop talking about words / talk with words / contentedly / sufficiently / fully”
“These circumstances led to all kinds of horror stories – one of which I’ll share today.”
“Also my mother and also me / it turns out / were pregnant // and we miscarried on the same day”
“I would have given anything to save him. You, I can’t save.”
“Go, go to Auschwitz. / Maybe you’ll get a few poems out of it. “
“In one dream, he and the Golem had shared a cigarette.”
“So whose dream are we talking of? Or perhaps we should ask for whom was the dream intended?”
“I believe in Gilad. I believe he will advise the shit out of everyone’s investments.”
“What kind of vaccines do you give a baby that came from a watermelon?”
“It’s so important that you trust your own vision, and just create your own unique powerful universe that you want to inhabit.”
“Poetic form is like a hanger on which the dress of the poem takes shape.”
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