As the leader of the Soviet Union, I face the threat of death everywhere and at any time. The dwarf is also right in saying that my biggest threat doesn’t come from a disgruntled peasant, but instead from those in my inner circle.
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It’s tight at our table,
unknown parts of the same group,
face to face, and she wants to
teach me to drink Cognac.
When I was younger I was a renegade
To the true muse, but not for lack
Of worship
This time, Sadie finds herself playing for him, playing to impress him as her husband was always trying to do. She’d like to earn it, she thinks. She’d like to earn what she’s stealing from him.
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how can something that happens so regularly always come as a surprise
like the monthly blood down your legs
or the change of season
one day I’ll never be caught off guard.
The Fates seemed to turn against me when I hit sixty—or sixty hit me.
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if the pronoun is acting as a subject
most people would probably say it’s only me