Word: cisterns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shadyville, Ohio, one William Baker was arrested for chicken-stealing. A dressed chicken, discovered in his cistern, was taken in evidence. To preserve it for a September grand jury, the fowl was sent to an undertaker, embalmed...
...just one fault. He said that my supreme ability to feel, which he thought was greater than in any other girl's poetry he had ever read, had conquered everything else. Do you see? In the great wave of emotion, which overflows all our psychological dikes into the cistern that we call "poetry", I was slowly but surely drowning myself. "Your surrender is always too complete," he said. "You give too much, always." (No, I like this way better...