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“The Life” by James Wright 🇺🇸 (13 Dec 1927 – 25 Mar 1980)
Murdered, I went, risen,
Where the murderers are,
That black ditch
Of river.
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And if I come back to my only country
With a white rose on my shoulder,
What is that to you?
It is the grave
In blossom.
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It is the trillium of darkness,
It is hell, it is the beginning of winter,
It is a ghost town of Etruscans who have no names
Any more.
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It is the old loneliness.
It is.
And it is
The last time.