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I don't think this poem is so
hot, but I'll read it anyway.

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It's called "The Widow."

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"After I burned
the boar's carcass,

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I fill the slop bucket.

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And the old sow gets up
grunting from deep inside

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where the piglets,
just beginning to wake,

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are already smelling
the sour food

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and stretching their
pink toes toward me.

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As I dump the slop
into the trough,

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the sow rubs her
snout against my leg,

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and I kneel, pushing my head
through to the muddy side

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of her body.

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I touch her teat with my tongue.

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She grunts, and I
climb over the fence.

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I sink down on my side in
the mud, the wet black cotton

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of the earth as my wife calls--

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no, not my wife, the woman.

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I don't say anything.

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How can I tell her
he will never come?"

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