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Please Join My Facebook Page by CLICKING HERE Diccussions, translations and positive people at our Facebook Page As The Sparrow by Charles Bukowski To give life you must take life, and as our grief falls flat and hollow upon the billion-blooded sea I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed with white-legged, white-bellied rotting creatures lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes. Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love. Please Join My Facebook Page by CLICKING HERE

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C.P. Cavafy	Carl Sandburg	Carol Ann Duffy
Charles Baudelaire	Charles Bukowski	Charles H. Sorley
Charles Simic	Charles Webb	Charlotte Bronte
Christina Rossetti	Christopher Marlowe	Christopher Morley
Christopher Smart	Conrad Aiken	Craig Raine
Czeslaw Milosz

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