I decided I didn't want to live with a man. My family exper… - Diane di Prima

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I decided I didn't want to live with a man. My family experience of growing up made me think that living with men wasn't a nice idea. I had lots of lovers, and I asked people if they wanted to father a kid, and everybody thought I was insane, and finally I didn't ask — I just got pregnant and had Jeanne.

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Diane di Prima (6 August 1934 – 25 October 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Her magnum opus is widely considered to be Loba, a collection of poems first published in 1978 then extended in 1998.

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NO ONE WAY WORKS, it will take all of us
shoving at the thing from all sides
to bring it down.

get up, put on your shoes, get
started, someone will finish

but don’t get uptight : the guns
will not win this one, they are
an incidental part of the action
which we better damn well be good at,
what will win
is mantras, the sustenance we give each other,
the energy we plug into

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