How so, awkward?
L
On Tue, February 14, 2012 12:12, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Seeded and ceded bit awkward?? Fierce stuff
> P
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> Sent: 14 February 2012 11:37
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> Subject: Elidius: a rejection
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> "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.
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> 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.
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> 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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