This is interesting for the way it suggests an articulate awareness in the woman that seesm perhaps more modern? It rings, though.
Shouldnt there be an end quotation mark?
Doug
On 2012-02-14, at 4:36 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> “Oh I detest you,” she says; “I hate you.
> All this grabbing! I am not for breeding
> with the vulgar, like some godless animal.
> I am not for penetration, fucking,
> like a pot poked out dry with ladle and bread.
>
> My body is something else than you imagine.
> You break it. You corpse it. You piss on it,
> trying to seed me! You shall not prevail.
>
> Nor I – I’ll not be ceded – carrying child,
> bringing your disease to term. Forget me
> as I forgive myself, being too dull;
> and breakable; and pliant; and other earth matter.
> Let me grow; and shine; and ring; and be alone.
>
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