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 Refusal by Maya Angelou 
						Beloved,In what other lives or lands
 Have I known your lips
 Your Hands
 Your Laughter brave
 Irreverent.
 Those sweet excesses that
 I do adore.
 What surety is there
 That we will meet again,
 On other worlds some
 Future time undated.
 I defy my body's haste.
 Without the promise
 Of one more sweet encounter
 I will not deign to die.
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