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Mary Jo Bang (born October 22, 1946 in Waynesville, Missouri) is an American poet.

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You are reduced
To the after-sorrow
That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing
Grief of the mother
Whose child has been swept away.

Away, Children, Grief, Mother, Reduced

And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?

Destroy, Longing, Question

To say you loved a person.
To say that person no longer exists.
A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

Fate, Flawed, Grief, Longer, Person, Tragic

The wheel begins its only if turning.
It had never stopped.
This is life's bargain that motion
Is hope.

Bargain, Bargains, Grief, Turning, Wheel, Wheels

Why are you not where you belong?
A black hat on a hook says nothing.
Ashes mirror ashes
In a mirroring window.

Ashes, Black, Grief, Mirrors, Window

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

Desire, Given, Mind, Unstoppable, Wire

I say every dog looks like no other but that isn't true. Not entirely. Difference is slippery.

Differences, Dog, Looks, Say, Slippery, True

A child, then a man, now a feather
Passing through a furious fire
Called time.

Child, Children, Grief, Men, Passing, Time

Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave. ' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal. ' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.

Attempting, Costumes, Historical, Mannequins, Towns, Walter

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