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"You took away all the oceans and all the room"

by Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam

You took away all the oceans and all the room.
You gave me my shoe-size in earth with bars around it.
Where did it get you? Nowhere.
You left me my lips, and they shape words, even in silence.




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