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" This is what you changed me to:
a greypink vegetable with slug
eyes, buttock
incarnate, spreading like a slow turnip,

a skin you stuff so you may feed
in your turn, a stinking wart
of flesh, a large tuber
of blood which munches
and bloats. Very well then. Meanwhile

I have the sky, which is only half
caged, I have my weed corners,
I keep myself busy, singing
my song of roots and noses,

my song of dung. Madame,
this song offends you, these grunts
which you find oppressively sexual,
mistaking simple greed for lust.

I am yours. If you feed me garbage,
I will sing a song of garbage.
This is a hymn. "

Margaret Atwood , Selected Poems: 1965-1975


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Margaret Atwood quote : This is what you changed me to:<br />a greypink vegetable with slug<br />eyes, buttock<br />incarnate, spreading like a slow turnip,<br /><br />a skin you stuff so you may feed<br />in your turn, a stinking wart<br />of flesh, a large tuber<br />of blood which munches<br />and bloats. Very well then. Meanwhile<br /><br />I have the sky, which is only half<br />caged, I have my weed corners,<br />I keep myself busy, singing<br />my song of roots and noses,<br /><br />my song of dung. Madame,<br />this song offends you, these grunts<br />which you find oppressively sexual,<br />mistaking simple greed for lust.<br /><br />I am yours. If you feed me garbage,<br />I will sing a song of garbage.<br />This is a hymn.