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It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. --- William Carlos Williams

Monday, September 5

Untouchable


Wikileaks: India's Mayawati 'sent jet to collect shoes'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14784228

They long for paved roads
Instead of dirt rising in the sunlight 
And clean wells
Not mornings spent walking to the polluted river

She scorns humble garlands of jasmine,
Demanding rupees.
Building only statues of herself
Posted by Stephanie Hope Arnold at 05:07
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