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Demeter, as the goddess
of all things growing,

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had a tool to force the
god the underworld's hand.

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She simply said, I will
not let anything grow.

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"Demeter."

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"Waiting.

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No.

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Who can bear it?

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Only someone who
hates herself, who

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believes to pull a hand back
from a daughter's cheek,

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is to put love into her pocket?

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Like one of those ashen
Christian philosophers,

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or war bound soldier.

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She is gone again, and
I will not bear it.

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I will drag my grief through
a winter of my own making

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and refuse any meadow that
recycles itself into hope.

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Shit on the cicadas, dry meteor
flash, finicky butterflies.

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I will wail and thrash until the
whole goddamn golden panorama

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freezes over.

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Then I will sit down
and wait for her.

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Yes."

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Don't mess with a mother.

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