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An Atlas of the Difficult World

            by Adreinne Rich

"....on this earth in this life,

as I read your story, you're  lonely lonely in the bar, on the coastal river,

with your best friend, his wife, and your wife, fishing,

lonely in the prarie classroom, with all the students who love you.

You know some ghosts, [they] come everywhere with you., but leave them unaddressed for years.

You spend weeks in a house with a drunk, you sobor, whom you love, feeling lonely.

You grieve in loneliness,

and if I understand you fuck in lonliness." 

Rich. A. (1991). An atlas of a different world: Poems: 1988-1991. New York: W.W. Norton.

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