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So squeezed, wince you I scream? I love you
&
hate
off with you. Ages!
Useless.
Below my waist
he has me
in
Hell's vise.
Stalling. He let go. Come back: brace
me somewhere. No. No. Yes! everything down
hardens I press with horrible joy down
my back cracks like a wrist
shame I am voiding ohbehind it
is
too late
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hide me forever I work thrust I must free
now I all muscles
&
bones concentrate
what is living from dying?
Simon I must leave you so untidy
Monster you are killing me Be sure
I'll have you later Women do endure
I can
can
no longer
and it p<l$es the wretched trap whelming and I am me
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drencht
&
powerful, I did it with my body!
One proud tug greens Heaven. Marvellous,
unforbidding Majesty.
Swell, imperious bells. I fly.
Mountainous, woman not breaks and
will
bend:
sways God nearby: anguish comes to an end.
Blossomed Sarah, and I
blossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl.
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Beloved household, I am Simon's wife,
and the mother of Samuel-whom greedy yet I
miss
out of
his
kicking place.
More in some ways I feel at a loss,
freer. Cantabanks
&
mummers, nears
longing for you. Our chopping scores my ears,
our costume bores my eyes.
St. George to the good sword, rise! chop-logic's rife
