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The Country Between Us
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“There is a cyclone fence between
ourselves and the slaughter and behind it
we hover in a calm protected world like
netted fish, exactly like netted fish.
It is either the beginning of the end
of the world, and the choice is ourselves
or nothing.”
― The Country Between Us
ourselves and the slaughter and behind it
we hover in a calm protected world like
netted fish, exactly like netted fish.
It is either the beginning of the end
of the world, and the choice is ourselves
or nothing.”
― The Country Between Us
“It is not your right to feel powerless.
Better people than you were powerless.”
― The Country Between Us
Better people than you were powerless.”
― The Country Between Us
“...the Roanoke valley
where mountains hold the breath
of the dead between them and lift
from each morning a fresh bandage of mist.”
― The Country Between Us
where mountains hold the breath
of the dead between them and lift
from each morning a fresh bandage of mist.”
― The Country Between Us
“After ten years you want
so fervently to talk about the war
like those who have gone to war before you.”
― The Country Between Us
so fervently to talk about the war
like those who have gone to war before you.”
― The Country Between Us
“In the black cheese crock
are the ashes, flecked
with white slivers of bone,
that should have been scattered
years ago, but the thing
did not seem possible.”
― The Country Between Us
are the ashes, flecked
with white slivers of bone,
that should have been scattered
years ago, but the thing
did not seem possible.”
― The Country Between Us
“To be in love with some woman who cannot speak
English, to have her soften your back with oil
and beat on your mattress with grief and pleasure
as you take her from behind, moving beneath you
like the beginning of the world.”
― The Country Between Us
English, to have her soften your back with oil
and beat on your mattress with grief and pleasure
as you take her from behind, moving beneath you
like the beginning of the world.”
― The Country Between Us
“American life, you said, is not possible.”
― The Country Between Us
― The Country Between Us
“You will fight
and fighting, you will die. I will live
and living cry out until my voice is gone
to its hollow of earth, where with our
hands and by the lives we have chosen
we will dig deep into our deaths.
I have done all that I could do.”
― The Country Between Us
and fighting, you will die. I will live
and living cry out until my voice is gone
to its hollow of earth, where with our
hands and by the lives we have chosen
we will dig deep into our deaths.
I have done all that I could do.”
― The Country Between Us
“Your problem is not your life as it is
in America, not that your hands, as you
tell me, are tied to do something. It is
that you were born to an island of greed
and grace where you have this sense
of yourself as apart from others. It is
not your right to feel powerless. Better
people than you were powerless.
You have not returned to your country,
but to a life you never left.”
― The Country Between Us
in America, not that your hands, as you
tell me, are tied to do something. It is
that you were born to an island of greed
and grace where you have this sense
of yourself as apart from others. It is
not your right to feel powerless. Better
people than you were powerless.
You have not returned to your country,
but to a life you never left.”
― The Country Between Us
“I go mad, for example,
in the Safeway, at the many heads
of lettuce, papayas and sugar, pineapples
and coffee, especially the coffee.
And when I speak with American men,
there is some absence of recognition:
their constant Scotch and fine white
hands, many hours of business, penises
hardened by motor inns and a faint
resemblance to their wives. I cannot
keep going.”
― The Country Between Us
in the Safeway, at the many heads
of lettuce, papayas and sugar, pineapples
and coffee, especially the coffee.
And when I speak with American men,
there is some absence of recognition:
their constant Scotch and fine white
hands, many hours of business, penises
hardened by motor inns and a faint
resemblance to their wives. I cannot
keep going.”
― The Country Between Us
“Upon my return to America, Josephine:
the iced drinks and paper umbrellas, clean
toilets and Los Angeles palm trees moving
like lean women”
― The Country Between Us
the iced drinks and paper umbrellas, clean
toilets and Los Angeles palm trees moving
like lean women”
― The Country Between Us
“There is nothing one man will not do to another.”
― The Country Between Us
― The Country Between Us
“In Deya when the mist
rises out of the rocks it comes
so close to her hands she could
tear it to pieces like bread.”
― The Country Between Us
rises out of the rocks it comes
so close to her hands she could
tear it to pieces like bread.”
― The Country Between Us