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When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he h...more

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When I was born, my mother dressed me as a boy because she could not afford to feed any more daughters. By the mystic laws of gender and economics, it...more

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So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn't be read in school because it is irr...more