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What humanity needed was that gravity-defying miracle, the bird.

Never issue a dare to a dead person. They’ve got all the time in the world.

If mine, then, is a religious Offence, leave it to religious Punishments.

this country will stick it to infiltrators imprison traitors love neighbors

Taller than most women, Sojourner Truth seemed to rise a little higher.

He will be unable to resist his manias for symmetry and completion.

Men like me and my brothers filmed what we planted for proof we existed.

When the snake attacked the soldier, its fangs left a violent opening.

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One said she heard the jazz-band sob when the little dawn was grey.

He was ready to move on, to touch his patients, to cut them open.

Ajax killed men and then animals thinking they were men.

Fatwas condoned our arrest for the rouged contours of our lips.

There was a shout, then a shot fired. I pressed the shutter again and again.

Her family was still poor and hungry and scared.

Before he started spraying he would hand her the mask to put on.

Condemned to an easy life balanced on the suffering in another land.

A memory in the drip, drip, drip of the kitchen sink that won’t stop.

If life was exchanged, who is to say it flowed one way?

The first skeleton drawn from the earth, they called beautiful.

A goddess was offended; her altar required my virgin blood.

Charlie wasn’t Lena’s first love, but he counted on being her last.

Here: geeky cyber-warriors crunch cheese Cheetos over keyboards.

They cut you off, let fall your hammered silver bracelets to the sand.

Yes, Eylon thought, he lied to Cath. Lied about his day, about the risks.

Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden was edited by Tom Jenks.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

How do you beat a man who refuses to rise from a puddle of his own blood.

Ajax can answer all this killing only with the killing of himself.