I Was Made For Swallowing- -john Thompson- Ggg-... ((install)) Access

The line is the opening of the poem "The Runaway" by the influential Black Australian poet John Thompson .

Inside: “Dear John, I heard you were made for swallowing. So was I. But I swallow light, not matter. I swallow silence, not samples. Come find me at the old observatory. —E.” I was made for Swallowing- -John Thompson- GGG-...

I Was Made for Swallowing Author: John Thompson Publisher: Grove/Atlantic (GGG is likely the imprint or series, not the publisher) The line is the opening of the poem

I was made for swallowing, they said. In the end, I became a mirror: a place to place things you could not keep inside yourself. Swallowing did not absolve the world, but it made room for people to act. And action—messy, unpaid, human—was the real agent of consequence. not matter. I swallow silence