Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CITIES: 2. BERLIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE


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First Line: How shall the great destroyer save herself
Last Line: Of shame, misery, revolution, despair.
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Despair; Revolutions; Shame


How shall the great destroyer save herself
From being destroyed?
They have torn her clothes away, broken her limbs,
Starved her body; her breasts no longer give.
Down Sieges Allee or Unter den Linden she roves,
Leading her children in search of food -- her eyes torches
Of shame, misery, revolution, despair.





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