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Germs
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When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we wrote notes to each other perhaps on the hour. Our devoted mother would pass them for us, after first running them in a hot oven to kill the germs. They came into our hands curled up and warm, sometimes scorched like toast.
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― On Writing
― On Writing
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This world lives on lies
Feeding itself with flesh
that denies and dies
and decayed into the loam: fresh
This terror preys upon earth
Saving itself with human-worms
that creep inside weapons’ mirth
in the name of curing demonic germs
From the poem "Covid...
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