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  1. I have heard that voice many a time when asleep and, what is strange, I understood more or less an order or an appeal in an unearthly tongu…
  2. All my life to pretend this world of theirs is mine And to know such pretending is disgraceful. But what can I do? Suppose I suddenly screa…
  3. They say somebody has invented you but to me this does not sound convincing for humans invented themselves as well.
  4. I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shore…
  5. All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside o…
  6. Only when two times, two forms are drawn Together and their legibility Disturbed, do you see that immortality Is not very different from th…
  7. What I'm saying here is not, I agree, poetry, as poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress and only with the …
  8. - How is it, Chloe, that your pretty skirt Is torn so badly by the winds that hurt Real people, you who, in eternity, sing The hours, sun i…

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