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“Another Weeping Woman” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
Pour the unhappiness out
From your too bitter heart,
Which grieving will not sweeten.
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Poison grows in this dark.
It is in the water of tears
Its black blooms rise.
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The magnificent cause of being—
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world—
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Leaves you
With him for whom no phantasy moves,
And you are pierced by a death.