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Titanic Operas: Adrienne Rich

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THIS IS MY THIRD AND LAST ADDRESS TO YOU by Adrienne Rich Page 2 III. Strangers are an endangered species In Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst cocktails are served the scholars gather in celebration their pious or clinical legends festoon the walls like imitations of period patterns (...and, as I feared, my "life" was made a "victim") The remnants pawed the relics the cult assembled in the bedroom and you whose teeth were set on edge by churches resist your shrine escape are found nowhere unless in words (your own) All we are strangers--dear--The world is not acquainted with us, because we are not acquainted with her. And Pilgrims!--Do you hesitate? and Soldiers oft--some of us victors, but those I do not see tonight owing to the smoke.--We are hungry, and thirsty, sometimes--We are barefoot--and cold-- This place is large enough for both of us the river-fog will do for privacy this is m

Titanic Operas: Adrienne Rich THIS IS MY THIRD AND LAST ADDRESS TO YOU by Adrienne Rich Page 2 III. Strangers are an endangered species In Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst cocktails are served the scholars gather in celebration their pious or clinical legends festoon the walls like imitations of period patterns (... and, as I feared, my "life" was made a "victim" ) The remnants pawed the relics the cult assembled in the bedroom and you whose teeth were set on edge by churches resist your shrine escape are found nowhere unless in words (your own) All we are strangers--dear--The world is not a

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