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1 " Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys. "

― Stephen Crane , Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

2 " I am republicI am maoistI am activistand I am thisand I am thatbut why?Why can't "

3 " People say I was made for thisNothin' else would I trade for thisAnd just think I get paid for this... "

4 " We lie under the sheet
after making love, speaking
of loneliness
relieved in a book
relived in a book
so on that page
the clot and fissure
of it appears
words of a man
in pain
a naked word
entering the clot
a hand grasping
through bars:

deliverance

What happens between us
has happened for centuries
we know it from literature

still it happens

sexual jealousy
outflung hand
beating bed

dryness of mouth
after panting

there are books that describe all this
and they are useless "

― Adrienne Rich , The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984