Margaret Atwood Poems

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11.
Siren Song

This is the one song everyone
would like to learn: the song
that is irresistible:
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12.
The City Planners

Cruising these residential Sunday
streets in dry August sunlight:
what offends us is
the sanities:
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13.
Night Poem

There is nothing to be afraid of,
it is only the wind
changing to the east, it is only
your father the thunder
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14.
Bored

All those times I was bored
out of my mind. Holding the log
while he sawed it. Holding
the string while he measured, boards,
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15.
Morning In The Burned House

In the burned house I am eating breakfast.
You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast,
yet here I am.
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16.
Variation On The Word Sleep

I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
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17.
Spelling

My daughter plays on the floor
with plastic letters,
red, blue & hard yellow,
learning how to spell,
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18.
In The Secular Night

In the secular night you wander around
alone in your house. It's two-thirty.
Everyone has deserted you,
or this is your story;
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19.
The Landlady

This is the lair of the landlady

She is
a raw voice
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20.
The Shadow Voice

My shadow said to me:
what is the matter
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