“stop talking about words / talk with words / contentedly / sufficiently / fully”
“Also my mother and also me / it turns out / were pregnant // and we miscarried on the same day”
“Go, go to Auschwitz. / Maybe you’ll get a few poems out of it. “
“So whose dream are we talking of? Or perhaps we should ask for whom was the dream intended?”
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