Jeffrey McDaniel Quotes

#1. I've been ignored by prettier women than you,
but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
so far, without spilling a drop.

Jeffrey McDaniel

#2. I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

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#3. Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.

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#4. I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

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#5. I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

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#6. There's two kinds of women
those you write poems about and those you don't.

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#7. On the scale of desire, your absence weighs more than someone else's presence

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#8. I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

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#9. Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny,
the way monogamy is funny, the way
someone falling down in the street is funny.
I entered a revolving door and emerged
as a human being. When you think of me
is my face electronically blurred?

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#10. No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like the belly of a shark, dumped its contents on a table - would there be any trace of me?

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#11. I know
it's stupid to not own a gun yet have
so many triggers, but in some other world
gigantic seashells hold humans
to their ears and listen to the echo
of machines.

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#12. I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

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#13. I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

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#14. When I haven't been kissed
in a long time, I create civil disturbances,
then insult the cops who show up,
till one of them grabs me by the collar
and hurls me up against the squad car,
so I can remember, at least for a moment,
what it's like to be touched.

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#15. Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

Jeffrey McDaniel