Twenty-One Love Poems (Excerpt)
Twenty-One Love Poems (Excerpt)
Adrienne Rich
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Wherever in this city, screens flicker
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with pornography, with science-fiction vampires,
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victimized hirelings bending to the lash,
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we also have to walk... if we want to walk
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at all, the whole city, the whole film,
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carrying our moral bodies, our moral souls
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like a woman carrying a dead child
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like a man carrying a live child
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like a woman carrying a live child
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like a man carrying a dead child
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to the place where we must go
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to the place where we must go
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to the place where we must go
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This is the oppressor's language
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yet I need it to talk to you.