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I’m a canal in Europe where bodies are floating
I’m a mass grave I’m the life that returns
I’m a table set with room for the Stranger

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I’m a man-child praising God he’s a man

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I have dreamed of Zion I’ve dreamed of world revolution

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I’m a corpse dredged from a canal in Berlin
a river in Mississippi I’m a woman standing

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I am standing here in your poem. Unsatisfied

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Adrienne Rich, excerpts from #10 from “Eastern War Time”, An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991 (p.44).