Adrienne Rich - Power lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - Power lyrics]
Living in the earth-deposit's of our history
Today a backhoe divulged out of
A crumbling flank of earth
One bottle amble perfect a hundred-year-old
Cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
For living on this earth in
The winters of this climate
Today I was reading about Marie Curie
She must have known she
Suffered from radiation sickness
Her body bombarded for years by the element
She had purified
It seems she denied to the end
The source of the cataracts on her eyes
The crack and suppurating skin
Of her finger ends
Till she could no longer hold a
Test tube or a pencil
She died a famous woman denying her wounds
Denying her wounds came from the same
Source as her power
Today a backhoe divulged out of
A crumbling flank of earth
One bottle amble perfect a hundred-year-old
Cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
For living on this earth in
The winters of this climate
Today I was reading about Marie Curie
She must have known she
Suffered from radiation sickness
Her body bombarded for years by the element
She had purified
It seems she denied to the end
The source of the cataracts on her eyes
The crack and suppurating skin
Of her finger ends
Till she could no longer hold a
Test tube or a pencil
She died a famous woman denying her wounds
Denying her wounds came from the same
Source as her power