Notes for My Body Double Quotes

“What will I do with my days
now that my nights
are sublimely alone
and how will I make use of this wound
I carried like a map
so that I would never, never
lose you?

from “In Praise of the Defective”
― Paul Guest, Notes for My Body Double

“No, I didn’t wait for you
or sleep much at all
or raise one hope like a rag to wipe my lost face.”
― Paul Guest, Notes for My Body Double