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LIKE A LIE by DAVID IGNATOW

Poet Analysis

First Line: IN MYSELF I SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE
Last Line: SOUND LIKE A LIE
Subject(s): LIES;
Watching from across the table your shoulders
hunched to the food, your fork sliding
in and out, nothing could be more serious,
your face tense, removed, I think,
my glass idle in my palm, this is how,
by first strengthening ourselves,
we prepare a paradise.



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