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I'd like to read
two more poems.

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One I don't know if
it's finished or not.

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It's a recent kind of poem,
but I want to read it anyway.

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And if it's not finished,
I'll know it too, OK,

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and I'll work on it I guess.

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I went to a reading
a few days ago.

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And sometimes I think
it's the mood you're in.

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Adrienne Rich was
reading, a fine poet.

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But I was so struck by
something about women poets,

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I am often struck by it.

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And I started thinking
about myself in relation

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to other women poets.

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So this is what
I'm coming up with.

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My sisters are sad.

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They have bad lovers
and bad children.

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The holes in their ears
have become infected.

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They have bled every
month for 20 years.

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They drag one leg as
they read us their pain.

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They have written him down,
they have memorized his face.

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I think I am the
loony in this boat.

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I know him too, every rag
of him every stiff bone,

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but I have noticed a
certain astonishment

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in being a human woman.

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I am held by the splendor in it.

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The insect on my forehead
stands for celebrate.

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