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  1. Kathy Acker _ Eurydice in the Underworld

    When I returned, not to Berlin, but to Hamburg in the midst of the fog of the beginning of winter, to the road that runs right above it's river and docks, a castle which never existed and a fountain which is really a sewer, a gust of wind far sweeter and more fragrant than any red rose carried the smell of shit and floating soil like a tongue into my nostril."
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  2. Kathy Acker _ Eurydice in the Underworld

    If we keep on fucking, I'm not gonna die.
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  3. Kathy Acker _ Eurydice in the Underworld

    Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.
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  4. Kathy Acker _ Eurydice in the Underworld

    Every angel is terrifying.Through the darkness, they move silently...I will go down into death with you.I must go where I must goTo see what I must seeIn that place where no one knows...... This is where love is taking me.You have been leadingMe, angels, in and out of death.I have no idea who you are.Eurydice. Is she nothingOr is she your mirror?I don't know anymore.I am at war.Perhaps that which is given - Being human - Is too hard,And so it is love that brings us,To what cannot be born,To ourselves,And so we must change,Must descend, guided by love, into the unknown.Lovers disappear in each other.Do they disappear forever?Where do they go?
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  5. Kathy Acker _ Blood and Guts in High School

    Some folks like trains,some folks like ships,I like the way you move you hipsAll I want is a taste of your lips,boy,All I want is a taste of your lips.
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  6. Kathy Acker _ In Memoriam to Identity

    Education,' one of R's teachers taught, 'teaches you not to be yourself.' But who is yourself? R decided if it or he wasn't blood, it wasn't anything.
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  7. Kathy Acker _ My Mother: Demonology

    Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.
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  8. Kathy Acker _ Blood and Guts in High School

    Let me put it another way. Most people are what they sense and if all you see day after day is a mat on a floor that belongs to the rats and four walls with tiny piles of plaster at the bottom, and all you eat is starch, and all you hear is continuous music, you smell garbage and piss which drips through the walls continually, and all the people you know live like you, it's not horrible, it's just...
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  9. Kathy Acker

    Who, if I cried out, would hear me amongthe angels?"I know the answer:no one.Tell me: from where does love come?An angel is sitting on my face. To whom can I run?Take me in your arms, death,I'm so scared;do anything to me that will make me safewhile I kick my heels and shout out in total fear,while we hurtle through your cragsto where it's blacker:Orpheus' head eaten by rats,what's left of the world scatters,in the Lethe the poet's hairs,below where there's no ground, downinto your hole, because you want me to eat your sperm. Death. I know."Every angel is terrifying."Because of this, because I have met death,I must keep my death in me,gently,and yet go on living.Because of this, because I have met my death,I give myself birth.Remember that Persephoneraped by Hadesthen by him broughtinto the Kingdom of Deaththere gave birthto Dionysius.You were the terrorized child,Mother,Now be no more.Requiat in pacem.Tell me: from where does love come?"Emerging at last from violent insight"Sing out in jubilation and in praise."to the angels who terrified away the night.Let not one stringof my forever-child's heart and cunt fail to sing.Open up this body half in the realm of life, half in deathand give breathe.For to breathe is always to pray.You language where language goes away.You were the terrorized child,Mother,Be no more.Requiat in pacem

  10. Kathy Acker _ Eurydice in the Underworld

    Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.
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  11. Kathy Acker _ Eurydice in the Underworld

    {...} A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.
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  12. Kathy Acker _ Literal Madness: Three Novels

    They had not, under the heavens and on earth, one single weapon. They don't control the land they live on, the schools which train them, the heat and food their bodies need to live through the winter's cold, the media which gives them language, the military weapons for which they give most of their money. There is no more time in this city. Reasonable people don't let themselves dream because no dream can be true. They have a cry that bought them back to first causes: But we who have no mothers, no fathers, no homes or love. Where are we going to run?
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