The word can't cope with my load of anguish,/and my exalted… - Julia de Burgos

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The word can't cope with my load of anguish,/and my exalted pain can't fit in my verse.

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Julia de Burgos (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953) was a Puerto Rican poet.

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Workers! Slash the fear./Yours is the naked earth./Leap hunger and death/over the deep lagoon,/and join the peasants/and those knotted to the cane./Break a million fists/against so unjust a morality!/Raise, raise your arms!

your two hands no longer lift me/to gather the sky's harvest of stars

And yet, you have not died Martí, you only sleep;/the earth requested you like a flag

The word can't cope with my load of anguish,/and my exalted pain can't fit in my verse. - Julia de Burgos

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