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“The place was a funeral pyre for the young who died before knowing the thirst of man or woman. Furies with snakes in their hair wept. Tantalus ate pears & sipped wine in a dream, as the eyes of a vulture poised over Tityus' liver.” — Yusef Komunyakaa

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The place was a funeral pyre for the young who died before knowing the thirst of man or woman. Furies with snakes in their hair wept. Tantalus ate pears & sipped wine in a dream, as the eyes of a vulture poised over Tityus' liver.
— Yusef Komunyakaa