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“What more can the poem do? O Love, did you know that Czeslaw Milosz was right when he argued ‘What is poetry that cannot save nations or people?’ You are my nation. I only wanted to write poems to save you.”

Writing Death Poetry Dying Depression Chronic Illness

Book:Death Prefers the Minor Keys

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“I will be up all night watching over your absence.”

Love Death Loss

Book:Death Prefers the Minor Keys

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“Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you”

Love Desire Daughter Kiss Pregnancy Beso Sean Thomas Dougherty On Comes Light One

Book:Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line

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“When you were strung out and I kissed you I imagined your mouth a mound of cocaine, inhaling your breath like powder as I pushed into you and you pulled me with your bruised thighs. Some nights we fucked so slowly I dissolved like a Quaalude in a glass of vodka, and you drank me down. We kept the room dark, so we could not see each other with our eyes rolled back - or was it because we did not want to see ourselves. It's taken me too long to think of that, the way we never thought the other would go, and then one night I woke up sober and yes, still there.”

Love Sex Drugs Sean Thomas Dougherty The Opposite Of Elegy

Book:Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line

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“Pavarotti is dead and the streets are full of arias, my brother. Every window a tenor leans, there are sopranos in the olive branches. And all across the globe the world turns to crescendos.”

Poetry Pavarotti Sean Thomas Dougherty Arias

Book:Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line

Source: Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line