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After this deluge

by Ingeborg Bachmann

After this deluge
I wish to see the dove
saved,
nothing but the dove.

I would drown in this sea
if it did not fly away,
if it did not return with the leaf
in the final hour.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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