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Flabby, bald, lobotomized,
he drifted in a sheepish calm,
where no agonizing reappraisal
jarred his concentration on the electric chair—
hanging like an oasis in his air
of lost connections.

— Robert Lowell Life Studies (1959)

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If we see light at the end of the tunnel,
It's the light of the oncoming train.

Day by Day (1977)

We are like a lot of wild
spiders crying together,
but without tears.

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No one like one's mother and father ever lived.

History (1973)

I will catch Christ with a greased worm.

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Your old-fashioned tirade—
loving, rapid, merciless—
breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.

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