She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter.
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- Nationality: american
- Born: March 16, 1952
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the other guineahen
died of a broken heart and we came to New York.
I used to sit at a table, drawing wings
with a pencil that kept breaking and i kept
remembering how your mind looked when it slept
for several years, to wake up asking why.
So then you turned into a photograph
of somebody who’s trying not to laugh
at somebody who’s trying not to cry
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