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“ Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment -- I need to see how they dance.''Okay.' She danced, and as she danced, she tried to think of the most delicious salads she could imagine -- with artichokes and sundried tomato and blue cheese dressing, and beets, lots of beets. ”

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But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

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Poetry is prose in slow motion.

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You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

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