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There was nothing more to conquer: an ocean of peace lay before me. To be free, as I then knew myself to be, is to realize that all conquest is vain, even the conquest of self, which is the last act of egotism. To be joyous is to carry the ego to its last summit and to deliver it triumphantly.
—Henry Miller
Sunday, April 27, 2008

How does your head feel? (Berrigan)

What I'm trying to say is that if an experience is / proposed to me—I don't have any particular interest / in it—Any more than anything else. I'm interested in / anything. Like I could walk out the door right now and go some / where else. I don't have any center in that sense...I don't feel / a necessity for being a mature person in this world. I mean / all the grown-ups in the world, they're just playing house, all / poets know that. How does your head feel? How I feel is / what I think.

Ted Berrigan, from "Around the Fire"

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