I am surprised to see that the ocean is still going on. - Anne Sexton

It was built on air and ghosts…it was truly beautiful but it died…because it tried to get real and it was never real.

Rats live on no evil star

With a tongue like a razor he will kiss
the mother, the child,
and we three will color the stars black
in memory of his mother
who kept him chained to the food tree
or turned him on and off like a water faucet
and made women through all these hazy years
the enemy with a heart of lies.