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In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love, which runs through creation and is common to the lowest animals and plants, it appears as a kind of organic basis for the unity of all creatures; in another, as the love of the mother for her offspring—which may also be termed a passion—it seems to pledge itself to the care and guardianship of the futur
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― The Intermediate Sex: A Study Of Some Transitional Types Of Men And Women
― The Intermediate Sex: A Study Of Some Transitional Types Of Men And Women
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a rose for empathy
can my own beauty reflect off glass
again the pain subsides like matted walls
like hospital halls like gas and pills and sass
never can I dance in balls or prance through malls
my pelvic gird’ survives tacked back intact
i sigh relieved my paralysis stops
there died before my eyes the drunk in fact
who crashed and thrashed and mashed in flee of cops
by grace i stay a higher vertebrate
in this ordered peck of vine and line still mine
my skin and brain remain not celibate
tho
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