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Don’t Think the World is a Tavern, by I. L. Peretz - RadicalJew.com
Don't Think the World Is a Tavern Don’t think the world is a tavern – created For fighting your way, with fists and with nails To the bar, where you gorge and you guzzle, while others Look on, glassy-eyed, from a distance Swooning from hunger, and swallowing spit Drawing their swollen cramped bellies in tighter