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“When I no longer have your heart
I will not request your body
your presence
or even your polite conversation.
I will go away to a far country
separated from you by the sea
— on which I cannot walk —
and refrain even from sending
letters
describing my pain.”
― Alice Walker, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete