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Joy Harjo - In mad love and war (1990)

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I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

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When you were born I held you wet and unfolding, like a butterfly newly born from the chrysalis of my body.

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I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

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All poets
understand the final uselessness of words. We are chords to
other chords to other chords, if we're lucky, to melody.


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Born: May 9, 1951 (age 74)
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