posts tagged "dead"

Certain portions of the heart
die, and are dead. They are
dead.

Cannot be exorcised or brought
to life.

Do not disturb yourself
to become whole.

They are dead, go down
in the dark and sit with them
once in a while.
-Gilbert Sorrentino, “Anatomy”

"I want to be dead but not as our technological life is dead

I want to be dead in a thoughtless presence, a topaz presence

like an animal's eye."

-Alice Notley, from "47th Birthday"