Sincerely Cetoria

Thoughts for Cetoria, by Cetoria.

[cetoria]

Nothing Twice - Nothing can ever happen twice.

“No day copies yesterday, 

no two nights will teach what bliss is 

in precisely the same way, 

with precisely the same kisses. “

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All of Us

Every day I am born like this—

“...We know Lilith ate 

the bones of her enemies. We know 

 a bitch learns to love her own ghost.“

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Mercy, Mercy, Me

Crips, Bloods, and butterflies.

“But to say you’ve come to terms

 with a city that’s never loved you   

might be overstating things a bit.“

[cetoria]

Don't Go Into the Library

The library is dangerous—

"The library is dangerous, full

Of answers. If you go inside, 

You may not come out

The same person who went in."

[cetoria]

Circe

It was easy enough

“It was easy enough 

to bend them to my wish, 

it was easy enough 

to alter them with a touch, 

but you“

[cetoria]

Diving into the Wreck

First having read the book of myths,

"the thing I came for:

the wreck and not the story of the wreck

the thing itself and not the myth"

[cetoria]

How to Triumph Like a Girl

I like the lady horses best,

"the huge beating genius machine

that thinks, no, it knows,

it’s going to come in first."

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Rain

As the falling rain / trickles among the stones

"because forever, I have loved it

without knowing why."

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I have gone out, a possessed witch,

“A woman like that is not a woman, quite. 

I have been her kind.“

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What had been treacherous the first time

“ Only then did we know. How it felt 

to have loved to the end, and then past the very end.”

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Life is short, though I keep this from my children.

“though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.”

[cetoria]

I scare away rabbits stripping the strawberries

“ I’d never seen a man grieve like that 

for an animal. I held you like a victory, 

embarrassed and relieved that this was how 

you loved. To the bone of you. To the meat.”

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Ok, I no longer want them,

“Ok, I no longer want them, the many selves I had to manage”

#poetry #IraSadoff

[cetoria]

Shame on you for dating a museum:

“Shame on you for dating a museum: Everything is dead there and nothing is alive.”

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if it doesn't come bursting out of you

“if you have to wait for it to roar out of 

you, 

then wait patiently.”

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There is no life after death. Why

“There is no life after death. Why              should there be. What on

earth would have us believe this.“

[cetoria]

"but there never was a polite circle with a human in it" #breaktimereading