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"Neva"

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"I'm not human for you, smallest
side of a pin whom I love.

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Summer in Boston, water
of the lake, blue and cold

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at the bottom.

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Akhmatova said, the
cold fire of the heart.

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I will quote her.

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Remember me.

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I am alive like the coathanger
twisted for abortion.

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No, that is not the truth.

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Akhmatova would say
something subtler, something

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about the mildness of
the Neva in winter,

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how her love is a shadow at
dusk moving across the sky

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as it dies.

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My love is not like that.

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I am like that as I disappear."

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