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The God in Us Wishes to Live

Back to the mouthing

of the warm wet eye?

Where did they put the child

who wanted to suck her thumb

who sucked sheets and socks and humiliation when they put

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the bitter alum on her fingers--

who won't suck a lollypop now?

III

Shattered, put together,

you are here,

standing on your head,

passed through the hands

of many men, like water,

like Rama's Sita,

proving her innocence

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