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God's Son went home. Among us it is whispered He cried the tears of men. Feeling, in fact, We have no need of peace.

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... Live!/and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

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I've stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back...

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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

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This morning men deliver wounds and death. They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow. And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.

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The intellectual damn Will nurse your half-hurt. Quickly you are well.

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To say yes is to die A lot or a little. The dead wear capably their wry Enameled emblems. They smell.

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She went in there to muse on being rid Of relative beneath the coffin lid. No one was by. She stuck her tongue out; slid.

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She has taken her passive pigeon poor, She has buried him down and down....

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Swing low swing low sweet sweet chariot. Nothing but a plain black boy.

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Think of thaumaturgic lass Looking in her looking-glass At the unembroidered brown....

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In Little Rock the people bear Babes, and comb and part their hair And watch the want ads, put repair To roof and latch.

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Time upholds or overturns The many, tight, and small concerns.

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Whether to dry In humming pallor or to leap and die.

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She kisses her killed boy. And she is sorry. Chaos in windy grays through a red prairie.

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Young, and so thin, and so straight. So straight! as if nothing could ever bend her....

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Now who could take you off to tiny life In one room or in two rooms or in three...

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"Remember When cruelty, metal, public, uncomplex,...

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"Men there were and men there be But never men so many Chief enough to marry me," Thought the proud late Annie.

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Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours....

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