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13th Balloon

Book by Mark Bibbins · 8 quotes · Poem, Poetry, Death

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All Poem Poetry Death Grief Loss Mourning Dying Activism Aids Call To Action Cleverness Confusion Drag Drugs Elegy Futility Gender Roles Healthcare Hiv Lgbtq

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“For me elegy is a Ouija planchette something I pretend not to touch as I push it around trying to make it say what I want it to say”

Writing Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Words Mourning Elegy

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“How many thousands of stories like yours have been told and forgotten how many stories of lovingly durable nurses of hospital sheets of IV tubes dripping saline and morphine How many stories of drugs that would haul you along in their wake for a while but finally let you sink”

Death Poetry Dying Poem Aids Healthcare Drugs Hiv Prescription Drugs Nurses

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“There are days when everything feels like a metaphor for your having died There are days when nothing does”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Mourning Metaphors

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“Since you died the house style could best be described as leaves that cling to trees too long into winter”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Winter Mourning

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“William S. Burroughs said cut into the present and the future leaks out When I cut into the past what leaks out is you”

Past Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Mourning Present

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“As kids we were warned against playing with gender as if it were a plastic bag THIS IS NOT A TOY but here are some pictures of you in drag getting ready to head out to a party or maybe that was the party”

Poetry Poem Drag Lgbtq Gender Roles Parties

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“I was clever in a severely limited sense”

Poetry Poem Cleverness Limitations

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“I often confuse a sense of futility with a call to action.”

Poetry Poem Activism Confusion Futility Call To Action

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