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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Androgyne Child Children Dead Describe Infinite Language Living Lost Mind Name Newborn Noun Surviving Verb
It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Child Children Female Identity Intense Motherhood Process Reciprocal
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Betrayed Caricature Electronic Mass Media Other People Target
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Bear Destruction Longer Scar Witness
If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Choose Circumstance End Feel Loser Responsible
My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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