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The Wife of Lot Has a Premonition of Her Death
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The Wife of Lot Has a Premonition of Her Death If I wanted to speak, I could make Him see there was no fairness in these Cain and Abel games. First you love one, then the other. Now a man will be saved, now awoman will die. Both sides lose when you gamble like that. Two causes for tears called a name together. Soon one morning Death come creeping in my room Didn't I learn by myself to pray? Didn't I sing only onename? Didn't I give the first offerings of my tongue? Didn't I open my soul to my old man's seed? Day each one of these girls was born, didn't I slip my fingers under her crown, cup the new head resting against mypalm? Can't any of that buy me one thing? Soon one morning Death come creeping in my room Maybe I'm not just a plain-formed woman. Maybe I'm Eve becoming sin. Maybe I've learned what is harder than a curse. I can make myown earth and oceans and little beasts. Maybe this man's God is afraid of me. 26 Soon one morning Death come creeping in my room O my Lord O my Lord Whatshallldo 2 7 ...