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TOO MUCH

Surplus seeps like winethrough a calabashdripping as though beads of sweat, spilt like the guts of martyrs -overflowing from  too much... Excess:things,people,places....we subsume thingsthey consume us. Satietyis no longer surfeit -there's always the gaping mouth- urchined lips curled,pulsating in the underwater sea bed of vacuity always wanting more, more and still more... BjR  December 7 '09 
— Bonitaj, Dec 07, 2009

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Region, Country: Tip of Southern Africa, ZAF

Favorite Poets: Too many to narrow down, but briefly :, AUDEN, T.S. ELIOT, DICKENSON, RILKE, THOREAU, RUMI ... the list is endless. Am inspired by many, especially those that live lives of "quiet desperation, and go to the grave with a song still in them" (THoreau)

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Bonitaj

Bonitaj

16 years 6 months ago

Thanks Kal!

Trimmed it quite a bit to try and "lighten the load"! Cheers Boni