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    The poem describes a void inside people that has carnivorous teeth and feeds on others, leaving blood and emptiness. This void is spread from person to person through words and actions, growing and breeding more tools of harm like saws and daggers. As a result, death now gives birth to new children everywhere as the world overlooks the growing threats.

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    The poem describes a void inside people that has carnivorous teeth and feeds on others, leaving blood and emptiness. This void is spread from person to person through words and actions, growing and breeding more tools of harm like saws and daggers. As a result, death now gives birth to new children everywhere as the world overlooks the growing threats.

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    The poem describes a void inside people that has carnivorous teeth and feeds on others, leaving blood and emptiness. This void is spread from person to person through words and actions, growing and breeding more tools of harm like saws and daggers. As a result, death now gives birth to new children everywhere as the world overlooks the growing threats.

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    The Void

    G. M. Muktibodh

    The void inside us

    has jaws,

    those jaws have carnivorous teeth;

    those teeth will chew you up,

    those teeth will chew up everyone else.

    The dearth inside is our nature,

    habitually angry,

    in the dark hollow inside the jaws

    there is a pond of blood.

    This void is utterly black,

    is barbaric, is naked,

    disowned, debased,

    completely self-absorbed.

    I scatter it, give it away,

    with fiery words and deeds.

    Those who cross my path find this void

    in the wound I inflict on them.

    They let it grow, spread it around,


    scatter it and give it away to others,

    raising the children of emptiness.

    The void is very durable, it is fertile.

    Everywhere it breeds saws, daggers,

    sickles, breeds carnivorous teeth.

    That is why, wherever you look,

    there is dancing, jubilation,

    death is now giving birth to brand new children.

    Everywhere there are oversights with the teeth of saws,

    there are heavily armed mistakes:

    the world looks at them and walks on,

    rubbings it’s hands.

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