# Quote — Carol Ann Duffy, Standing Female Nude

> One saw I was alive. Loosened
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> his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
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> Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
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> The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
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> this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.

- Author: [Carol Ann Duffy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carol-ann-duffy.md)
- Book: [Standing Female Nude](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carol-ann-duffy/standing-female-nude.md)
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## More from this book

> Six hours like this for a few francs.
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> Belly nipple arse in the window light,
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> he drains the colour from me. Further to the right,
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> Madame. And do try to be still.
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> I shall be represented analytically and hung
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> in great museums. The bourgeoisie will coo
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> at such an image of a river-whore. They call it Art.

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> This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
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> a man, inching across it in the space
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> between our thoughts. He holds our breath.There is no word net.You want him to fall, don't you?
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> I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
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> The word applause is written all over him.

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