Bob Hicok Quotes
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Here, when I say I never want to be without you, somewhere else I am saying I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you in each of the places we meet, in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying and resurrected. When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever
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I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.
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My life the only thing that has been with me my whole life.
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I can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.
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Let us all be from somewhere.
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I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.
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I think clapping is how mourn.
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Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.
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My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.
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When I say my name I hear a burned-down church.
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I love how intimate I've become with failure.
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You might think and be so marvelously right about praise that you open your door one day and the day walks in and stays for years.
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The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.
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When I don’t touch you it’s a mistake in any life, in each place and forever.