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Hayden Carruth

American poet, literary critic, "old-line anarchist" and "rural communist with a small c"

'Suicides and Jazzers' (1992). [expand]

"…. My hands

are sore, they flinch when I light my pipe.

I think of those who have done slave labor,

less able and less well prepared than I.

Rose Marie in the rye fields of Saxony,

her father in the camps of Moldavia

and the Crimea, all clerks and housekeepers

herded to the gaunt fields of torture….

… And I stand up high

on the wagon tongue in my whole bones to say

woe to you, watch out

you sons of bitches who would drive men and women

to the fields where they can only die."

- 'Emergency Haying'

[magazine.uchicago.edu/0504/features/carruth.shtml

articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/03/local/me-carruth3

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