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Bastille Day
Poem 1
Return to the Seattle
Return to Seattle:
Bastille Day
by Carolyne Wright
No difference in the gray gulls, sobbing
like women who circled the tumbrels,
scaffold silhouettes of fir.
The same sky lowers over the channel,
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Bastille Day
Poem 2
Let
them eat the cake
There's no bread, let
them eat cake
There's no end to what they'll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
Wash the salt into the earth
But they're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Free the dungeons of the innocent
The king will kneel, and let his kingdom rise
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Bastille Day
Poem 3
Waiting for the winds to change
Waiting for the winds
of change
To sweep the clouds away
Waiting for the rainbow's end
To cast its gold your way
Countless ways
You pass the days
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Bastille Day
Poem 4
Across the river
Across the River Styx,
out of the lamplight
His nemesis is waiting at the gate
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