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"Cruelty."

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I'm very obsessed with the
cruelty of human beings

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to others, and to animals,
and to themselves.

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Lots of my poems are about that.

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And especially the
perversion of sex.

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I never write love
poems unless they're

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about the perversion of love.

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I can't, because it'd be
too sentimental if you just

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wrote about love.

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"Cruelty."

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"The hoof marks on the dead
wildcat gleam in the dark.

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You are naked as you
drag it up on the porch.

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That won't work either.

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Drinking ice water hasn't nor
having the bed springs snap

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fingers to help us keep rhythm,
because I've never once felt

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anything that might get close.

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Can't you see, the thing
I want most is hard,

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running toward my own
teeth and it bites back?"

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