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Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets Quotes
Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
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“- so much like riding dangerous women
with whiskey coloured eyes -
such women as once fell dead with their lovers
with fire in their heads and slippery froth on thighs”
― Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
with whiskey coloured eyes -
such women as once fell dead with their lovers
with fire in their heads and slippery froth on thighs”
― Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
“Genius is children"
it lives in far Centaurus
and star clusters beyond cold Orion
and sometimes visits earth
when there is no one home”
― Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
it lives in far Centaurus
and star clusters beyond cold Orion
and sometimes visits earth
when there is no one home”
― Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
“(My dove my little one
tonight there will be wine and drunken suitors
from the logging camps to pin you down
in the outlying lands of sleep
where all roads lead back to the home-village
and water may be walked on)”
― Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
tonight there will be wine and drunken suitors
from the logging camps to pin you down
in the outlying lands of sleep
where all roads lead back to the home-village
and water may be walked on)”
― Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
“Seeing the sky darken & the fields
turn brown & the lake lead-grey
as some enormous scrap of sheet metal
& wind grabs the world around the equator
I am most thankful then for knowing about
the little gold hairs on your belly”
― Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
turn brown & the lake lead-grey
as some enormous scrap of sheet metal
& wind grabs the world around the equator
I am most thankful then for knowing about
the little gold hairs on your belly”
― Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
“And you you
bitch no irritating
questions re love and permanence only
an unrolling lifetime here
between your rocking thighs
and the semblance of motion”
― Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
bitch no irritating
questions re love and permanence only
an unrolling lifetime here
between your rocking thighs
and the semblance of motion”
― Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
