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“And now what will I do with all this time that forms my life with all these people who care nothing for me now, that you've left all these nights why, for whom and this morning for nothing returning my heart banging for whom why banging gravely, gravely, and now how to face up to that nothingness my life slipping o friends be gentle you know well we have nothing to do with it And now what will I do now that you . . .”

PoetryPoemAloneAbandonedNothingnessSuicidalAlejandra PizarnikThe Galloping Hour
Book:The Galloping Hour: French Poems
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“Naked. Fatigue of the body transparent as a glass-tree. Near yourself you hear the brutal rumor of inextricable desire. Night blindly mine. You're farther gone than me. Horror of checking for you in the screams of my poem. Your name is the disease of things at midnight. They had promised me one silence. Your face is closer to me than my own. Phantom memory. How I'd love to kill you —”

InspirationPoetryPoemSadMemoryRevengeMuseAlejandra PizarnikThe Galloping HourMy Favorite Poem
Book:The Galloping Hour: French Poems
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“Mí única mortificación era yo mismo, y ésta preocupación se manifestaba de varias maneras. Una de ellas era la hipocondría, la cual se manifestó desde muy temprana edad. Constantemente me preocupaba por la digestión, por la caída del cabello, por una posible malformación en mi columna vertebral... Este temor se desarrollaba con incontables matices, hasta que al final derivaba en una enfermedad real. Debido a que no me sentía seguro de nada, necesitaba a cada momento confirmar que existía, careciendo de algo que fuera mío de un modo definitivo, sin ninguna duda, y solamente mío (p. 54)”

DolorPoetaAlejandra PizarnikPreocupaciónFranzSeres
Book:Letter to His Father
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