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Where hard looks and thin soup oppose,
the spider, cockroach, rat, and mouse dispute
in patient litigation or in border raids
our title to this world. 

There is no mystery, it boils down to food.
Our ruined lunches providing theirs
as Roman baths provided stones
for abbeys of a different creed.

They...

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Categories: surpliced, animal, conflict, endurance, fear,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things