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Poem Written in 1991
When the Soviet Union Was Disintegrating

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My head is wet
My head is wet

Something
Something
I forget

I did not want to wash my hair

Something terrible
unbearable
or maybe not

Sometimes babies are born dead

It doesn't matter
in the water
what I wanted or forgot

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Does anybody know any really, really excellent poems about Elephants?

Not that little-kidsy "Elephants are splendid guys" etc., nor the parable about the blind men, who are idiots, but a good, good, thoughtful poem to love.

Barring that, a tattoo poem.

You know, love
you know, love
you aren't the only one that ever

They always shut us up in towers
ever since once upon a

So we learn alone there
arts of unlocking

Till the old terrors
shed wolfskin and stand brothers

by the alder lake at the edge of April

and the waiting's over

- Ursula K. LeGuin