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The #HollowMen by #TSEliot

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We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled w/straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet & meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape w/o form, shade w/o colour,
Paralysed force, gesture w/o motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

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