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Classic and Contemporary Poetry

TRANSITIONAL by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

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First Line: FIRST HE SAID
Last Line: AM I NOT I -- HERE?
First he said:
It is the woman in us
That makes us write --
Let us acknowledge it --
Men would be silent.
We are not men
Therefore we can speak
And be conscious
(of the two sides)
Unbent by the sensual
As befits accuracy.

I then said:
Dare you make this
Your propaganda?

And he answered:
Am I not I -- here?



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