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  • Someone spoke to me last night,
    told me the truth. Just a few words,
    but I recognized it.
    I knew I should make myself get up,
    write it down, but it was late,
    and I was exhausted from working
    all day in the garden, moving rocks.

    Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.