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Villanelle: Who would put us on this blue-green hot-cold earth Who would put us on this blue-green hot-cold earth Love us as much as we whose steps in vain grace Why make us defile the holy womb of birth Who wouldn’t find us such a mawkish source of mirth Our entry into world blessed with slime on face Who would put us on this blue-green hot-cold earth Should not some other means have been found for birth Than the bang-bang thrust in lice filthy disgrace Why make us defile the holy womb of birth That pleasure be sought in and around the girth And to make things worse drag down the beauteous face Who would put us on this blue-green hot-cold earth Unless the lesson’s to rise above and loath The fiend in thirsty loins contumacious Why make us defile the holy womb of birth Could our true fate be to disown very earth Not knowing why we came in the first place Who would put us on this blue-green hot-cold earth Why make us defile the holy womb of birth © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015

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