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Angelou,
Maya
Pulitzer Prize-winning African American author and an important figure in the American Civil Rights.. American Poet
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Refusal
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Written by:
Maya
Angelou
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Beloved,
In what other lives or lands
Have I known your lips
Your Hands
Your Laughter brave
Irreverent.
Those sweet excesses that
I do adore.
What surety is there
That we will meet again,
On other worlds some
Future time undated.
I defy my body's haste.
Without the promise
Of one more sweet encounter
I will not deign to die.
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