Tuesday, October 04, 2005

I Decline

I decline to exist in the crazy house
of the inhuman.
I decline to go on living
in the marketplace of wolves.


I won't howl,
among the sharks of the field.
I won't swim beneath
the waves of squirming backs.
I have no need of holes for hearing
or seeing eyes.
To your crazed world there's
only one answer: No!

Marina Tsvetayeva
1892-1941

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