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Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.

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At least the Bay Bridge snapped
Maybe because the people
haven't. They just keep going:
dopey smiles, dopey music in
their ear buds. Somebody
had to say something.
& the dolphins, if they tried,
wouldn't be believed.

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It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across railroad tracks, off bridges under cars, or stiff glass bottle still in hand, hair soft on greasy pillows, still it is news she cannot follow love (his burning footsteps in blue crystal snow) & still come out all right.

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I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

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Remember
that all you need to remember is what you love
Remember to Marry the World.

Diane di Prima

Poets speak truth when no one else can or will. That's why the hunger for poetry grows when the world grows dark. When repression grows, when people speak in whispers or not at all, they turn to poetry to find out what's going on.

Diane di Prima

Diane di Prima

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Born: August 6, 1934 (age 85)

Bio: Diane di Prima is an American poet and artist. She is also a prose writer, memoirist, playwright, social justice activist and teacher. Di Prima has authored nearly four dozen books, with her work translated into more than 20 languages.

Known for:

Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969)
Revolutionary letters (1968)
Recollections of my life as a woman (2001)
Dinners & nightmares (1961)
The Poetry Deal (2014)

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