• One saw I was alive. Loosened his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear. Between the gap of corpses I could see a child. The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.

  Source: Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars

  Carol Ann Duffy
  British poet and playwright
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. loosened
2. soldiers
3. separate
4. laughed
5. torture
6. child

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One saw I was alive. Loosened his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear. Between the gap of corpses I could see a child. The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye. by : Carol Ann Duffy

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