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“ This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other,for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it. ”

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Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

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And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.

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The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

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Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

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