He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came … - Garth Stein

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Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and "Report from the Surface" by Anthony McCann), sheep ("Snow Line" by John Berryman) or a yak ("The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia" by Oni Buchanan).

Garth Stein

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Body, Death, Free, Leave, Purpose, Soul

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These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release.

Deflectors, Dog, Men, Metal, Pain, Taking

. . . you have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for

Grasp, Heaven, Reach, Things

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

Dog, Give, Giving, Monkeys, Thumbs

That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

Becomes, Car, Eye, Inevitable, Inspirational, Life

It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.

Dependent, Difficult, Interpretation, Moving, Parts, Things