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The work of the world is common as mud.
-Marge Piercy
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The Work Of The World Is Common

Marge Piercy
The work of the world is common as mud.
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Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! they clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. they all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
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You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. you could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.
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