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Many of the works I write are so closely tied to the works of others that I do not claim them as wholly my own.
Sometimes these works are inspired by others' work, sometimes they contain the works themselves, and other times they would not be complete without an understanding of the work whence sprang my ideas.
This page is dedicated to such...
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you get pregnant, I am sure,
just for extra ground
--immune from kicks now.
~Michael Ondaatje, "A House Divided",
The Cinnamon Peeler
"Fat ugly cow -- can't you do anything for your lazy-ass self?" he muttered.
Martha's eyes narrowed and her lips pursed in a hard, straight line.
She lost her grip on the grin as Danny reverently kissed her very pregnant belly before taking his hands from her swollen calves and standing to shut the kitchen window.
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inspired by a friend's words
manic me mellow
you're all talk, full of dreams
of winning races and being queen
of the world
you're always on top of
everying
me
so high on your life
i like to sit by
and watch you fly
because you
you manic me mellow
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"But I often long for some prose when I'm reading a book of poems."
~Robert Bly,
Sleepers Joining Hands
The poetry of his form is like making love to an Ondaatje anthology.
His every movement and action makes her tingle, with warmth, with chills, with anger, love, arousal, fear.
But she understands the man through his actions no more than she could fathom the poet after making love to a cinnamon peeler.
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