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“May an unforeseen disaster
Overtake your worthy master,
The wagoner, Reb Benjamin,
And strike at you along with him.”
The horse was saying
to the whip and neighing,
“Did you ever
Hear of such a…
Contributor:
Eliezer Shteynbarg
Places:
Czernowitz, Kingdom of Romania (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Date:
1932
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His strong, coal-black hands crumpling and twisting his faded old hat, the thirty-year-old Adoons said in a quiet but firm voice to his employer, Mr. Waldman, the produce dealer,
“Baas, I’m finishing…
Contributor:
Morris Hoffman
Places:
Little Karoo, Union of South Africa (Little Karoo, South Africa)
Date:
ca. 1920
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The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek…
Contributor:
Marge Piercy
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Date:
1973
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It is barely six in the morning and the stars are still out, but Manuel has to get up.
It isn’t a job that wakes him. That obligation used to get him right to his feet, but now? Now just getting…
Contributor:
José Rabinovich
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1937