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And all of your ways
will come scuttling out
and lay themselves down
in the hands of preparators,

who’ll line them up
and pin them down
and speak your name out loud
and whisper mine in blades of grass.

I was buried in the Valley of the Kings!
You struck hard, and it was meant to sting!
I made myself up in the image of a man.
I made myself up in the image of a man!

*Now my heart turns this way and that,
when I think what the people will say.*

To lie in my own bed
-to be still in my small sarcophagus-
and to occupy silently
that which is found all around me.

Not to arise and go knocking
on the door from the inside.
Not to call from the inside.
Not to let it be heard:

I was buried in the Valley of the Kings!
You struck hard, and it was meant to sting!
I made myself up in the image of a man.
I made myself up in the image of a man!

*Now my heart turns this way and that,
when I think what the people will say. *

* These lines are attributed to Hatshepsut
(1508–1458 BC), female Pharaoh of
Ancient Egypt.

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from MUTATIS MUTANDIS, released August 1, 2010

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