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Some aggravations include the whole world.
What can you do? An old pulp-cutter
Longs to die, imagines
The Easter nails.
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On his Icelandic farm, Guttorm hears
The news: his two sons
Dead. He pulls the covers
Up over his head.
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Some oak leaves hang, others fall.
The body says, "It's all right
To die. It's not an insult
To the world."
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~ Robert Bly
from Morning Poems
from Morning Poems
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