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1 " We lie under the sheetafter making love, speakingof lonelinessrelieved in a bookrelived in a bookso on that pagethe clot and fissureof it appearswords of a manin paina naked wordentering the clota hand graspingthrough bars:deliveranceWhat happens between ushas happened for centurieswe know it from literaturestill it happenssexual jealousyoutflung handbeating beddryness of mouth after pantingthere are books that describe all thisand they are useless "
― Adrienne Rich , The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
2 " The dead” we say as if speakingof “the people” whogave up on making historysimply to get throughSomething dense and null groanwithout echo undergroundand owl-voiced I cry Whoare these dead people theselovers who if ever didlisten no longer answer: We : "
― Adrienne Rich , Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
