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Duras (Poverty)
By Cynthia Cruz
"The link with poverty is there is there in the
man's hat, too, for money has got to be brought in, got to be brought in
somehow," M.D., The Lover.
Poverty is in the language, it is in her gaze back. It seeps and oozes
into every poverty-stricken word. Each word is used sparingly as if each
word were currency.
It is everywhere. It stains everything.
It is everywhere. It flies about. It watches from every corner of the page.
Poverty is not something one leaves behind. A child born into poverty
will always feel its presence at the edges of everything. Even right
now, you can feel it—it is in my words, these tiny fractured things.
Cynthia Cruz, "Duras (Poverty)" from Guidebooks for the Dead. Copyright © 2020 by Cynthia Cruz. Reprinted by permission of Four Way Books, www.fourwaybooks.com.
Source:
Guidebooks for the Dead
(Four Way Books, 2020)
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