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Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson: Why We Write

ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

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The Distant Eggs Turned in Another Galaxy

"I'm sick of being God for you," she writes. "You start like a car and pepper in a number of growls, that's dog." She says going blind is momentarily seeing colors and remembering them for the rest of her life. The poem ends with: "Why must I die?"

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