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To live one must make a living – September 2021

09/29/2021

FromĀ War Cry on a Prayer Feather, 1979, by Nancy Wood

 

To live one must make a living.

In making a living we lose our faces

And see instead the images

Of what we have become.

If only

If only

Life did not become a business.

Categories Poems Tags life, War Cry on a Prayer Feather, work
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