We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

Our names were made for us in another century.

Messy, isn't it?

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.

I feel horrible. She doesn't love me and I wander around the house like a sewing machine that's just finished sewing a turd to a garbage can lid.

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.

Her sunny side was always up.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

I’m haunted by all the space that I will live without you.

All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

One day Time will die And love will bury it

My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit.

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.