Ruth Ann

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Inside these breast-bones I lie smutch’d and choked, Beneath this face that appears so impassive hell’s tides continually run, Lusts and wickedness are acceptable to me, I walk with delinquents with passionate love, I feel I am of them — I belong to those convicts and prostitutes myself, And henceforth I will not deny them — for how can I deny myself?
Leaves Of Grass: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892
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