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We are the kind of short-
term visitors who
each engage the heart
of each
others lives, one
anothers bodies;
sometimes forever yet
so brief the
sad distance
of
our all-night transit
leaves us
numb: to love.


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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Clarence Major

Clarence Major

Born: 1936 (age 89)
Bio: Clarence Major is an American poet, painter, and novelist; winner of the "2015 Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts," presented by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
Known for:
  1. My amputations (1986)
  2. All-night visitors (1969)
  3. Such Was the Season (1987)
  4. Dirty bird blues (1996)
  5. Reflex and Bone Structure (1975)

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