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MARCIA COLE"MAN
A WOMAN
Howpale is my skin.
(What trace of my ancestry remains?)
Pale white
woman White
wife woman
white . waif
a trace of her left.
Red burnt land
dry burnt desert skin
red woman
blood brown
barren bitch
like the land.
A pale wo.manstands
on the land.
Sbeis
the land.
Her breasts sigh heavily
beneath the weigbt.
S:!rokeis in her eyes.
Her tears are polluted
black ri vulets-
mascara I d streams of sludge-
run down her face.
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