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Random Poem:

Good Woman
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The night still frightens you	1
though the day knocks your head	2
dull. You have no place	3
in this bed, thinking these things. You have	4
no place, your hair, rumpled and right	5
against the wall and dead	6
drowses your lover man, your best of half	7
your life, your brutal bad choice	8
man who sleeps against you	9
at night. He snores a warning	10
you must stay. Here	11
though, you know you could make off	12
into the salted dark on a quiet wager,	13
that success will be this night.	14




First line from Charles Simic's 'The Oldest Child'	15
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