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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Power Politics

    You say, Do you / love me, do you love me / I answer you: / I stretch your arms out / one to either side, / your head slumps forward.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Power Politics

    Because you are never herebut always there, I forgetnot you but what you look likeYou drift down the streetin the rain, your facedissolving, changing shape, the coloursrunning togetherMy walls absorbyou, breathe you forthagain, you resumeyourself, I do not recognize youYou rest on the bedwatching me watchingyou, we will never knoweach other any betterthan we do now
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Power Politics

    i}We are hard on each otherand call it honesty,choosing our jagged truthswith care and aiming them acrossthe neutral table.The things we say are true; it is our crooked aims, our choicesturn them criminal.ii}Of course your liesare more amusing:you make them new each time.Your truths, painful and boringrepeat themselves over & over perhaps because you ownso few of themiii}A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?iv}Does the body liemoving like this, are these touches, hairs, wet soft marble my tongue runs overlies you are telling me?Your body is not a word,it does not lie or speak truth either.It is onlyhere or not here.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ Power Politics

    You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Power Politics

    If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?
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