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First Line: Survival, I know how this way
Last Line: "this way."
Variant Title(s): A San Diego Poem: January-february 1973: Survival This Way


Survival, I know how this way.
This way, I know.
It rains.
Mountains and canyons and plants
grow.
We travelled this way,
gauged our distance by stories
and loved our children.
We taught them
to love their births.
We told ourselves over and over
again, "We shall survive
this way."






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