When gravity asked
my body how long
I would like to wait,
I deferred to the research
the agreeable pomposity
of experts.
Today,
the museum guide (with his wide grin),
so confident in his own honesty,
finds it easy to believe
his own lies.
"This journal is not a mere literary diversion. The further I progress, reducing to order what my past life suggests, and the more I persist in the rigor of composition--of the chapters, of the sentences, of the book itself--the more do I feel myself hardening in my will to utilize, for virtuous ends, my former hardships. I feel their power." --Jean Genet
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