Advice and Warnings – by Jill Jones
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Advice and Warnings
Or What We Learned from the Gods
Cover your heels
Keep unpicking what you sew
Beyond the known world is a busy place for failures
Don’t visit abandoned theme parks with your parents
Never call anything by its right name
Never look back at love
All beauty is mortal grief
The keeper of the cauldron is the mother of poetry
All beauty arises from the sea
Dreaming you’re a butterfly doesn’t mean you’re asleep
Rabbits can lead you anywhere
Gifts are never gifts
Beware who you kiss, what cheek, what lips
Beware who kisses you, what lips, what corner
Even gangsters have to love their families
Never seek anyone’s true form
Summer requires winter and your soul
The horse goddess will accompany you to the next world
Otherwise
ignore their barren
laughter
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