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... under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still. Shrieking voices
Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering,
Always assail them. The Word in the desert
Is most attacked by voices of temptation,
The crying shadow in the funeral dan... |
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... out lockers, to hand out trays of
unappetizing food, and by day, or the tail-end of night
(daybreak dull on gray faces - ours and theirs)
the anxious, hurry, the scolding old-maid bosses.
But I loved the power
of our ordered nights,
gleaming surfaces I'd helped to polish
making patterns in the shipshape
halfdark ... |
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