QUOTES Flashcards
VALENTINE
PI PI LI
• Possessive and faithful
• It’s scent will cling to ur fingers
• Platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring
• I give you an onion
• Like the careful undressing of love
• It will blind you like a lover
Originally
MASH YA
• My parents anxiety stirred like a lose tooth
• And I hesitate
• Seeing your brother swallow a slug
• Home, home
• Your accent wrong
• All childhood is an emigration
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class
FT SS LL
• From commas into exclamation marks
• Sky split open into a thunderstorm
• Travel up the blue nile with you finger
• Laugh of a bell
• Sugar paper, coloured shapes. Brady and Hindley
War Photographer
SHE SAIL
• Stares impassively
• Half-formed ghost
• Eyes prick with tears
• Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
• All flesh is grass
• In his dark room he is finally alone
• Like a priest preparing to intone a mass