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1 " Tell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap his hands with corpsesUntil he stands like a childWith 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 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