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CITIES: 2. BERLIN by CALE YOUNG RICE

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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