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By William Carlos Williams

First he said:

It is the woman in us

That makes us write—

Let us acknowledge it—

Men would be silent.

We are not men

Therefore we can speak

And be conscious

(of the two sides)

Unbent by the sensual

As befits accuracy.

I then said:

Dare you make this

Your propaganda?

And he answered:

Am I not I—here?