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Excerpt from
Whether it is a speaker, taut on a platform,
who battles a crowd with the hammers of his words,
whether it is the crash of lips on lips
after absence and wanting : we must close
the circuits of ideas, now generate,
that leap in the body's action or the mind's repose
Muriel Rukeyser at the Academy of American Poets
Muriel Rukeyser's FBI dossier
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