But for their cries,
The herons would be lost
Amidst the morning snow.


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Ni dieu ni maître!

(Neither God nor master)

[Feminist and labour slogan trans...
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Toothless bites,
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the lost women

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Here
I'm here-
the snow falling.
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Be melting snow.
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I’d won the world
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Lay on, Macduff,
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Africa my motherland!
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we
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cigarettes
at
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She would outplay,
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I am so cool.
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mi táctica ...
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Dear G...
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Seek him always wit...
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There would be no music.
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I write for pages,
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hidden from stages.
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And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
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Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware th...
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o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
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Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
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he is only passing throug...
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We plough the fields and scatter
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Of course there are mothers,
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dry, pawning their bodies,
shedd...
MARGARET ATWOOD
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See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes,
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