Because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invul…

Octavio Paz
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Because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being. ✨ Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (1991). The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987, p.19, New Directions Publishing
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