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"Firing Squad."

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"Firing Squad."

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On balconies, sunlight.

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On poplars, sunlight,
on our lips.

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Today no one is shooting.

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A girl cuts her hair
with imaginary scissors--

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the scissors in sunlight,
her hair in sunlight.

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Another girl nicks a pair
of shoes from a sleeping

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soldier, skewered with light.

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As soldiers wake and gape
at us gaping at them,

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what do they see?

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Tonight they shot fifty
women at Lerna Street.

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I sit down to write and
tell you what I know:

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a child learns the world
by putting it in her mouth,

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a girl becomes a woman
and a woman, earth.

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Body, they blame you
for all things and they

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seek in the body what
does not live in the body.

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