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I’ve been wasting time

I’m more

myself now

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 121

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The women bleed for God’s sake

Man would convince her

to bleed without argument

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 114

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She unfolded—

pulling the silence

into a quiet

storm

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 106

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The country and presidential

figures are hunting The Daughters

of Heaven

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 99

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She opened steadily

expanding…

a fire quickly

formed of purpose

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 97

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concocting questions for women

with outside interests to

develop their character

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 93

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I noticed you’ve become

honestly awful,

really

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 90

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you’re going to change

into an irrational pick me

and need a psychiatrist

he said shaking his head

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 87

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The bullshit changed

into a house

on fire

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 85

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Her immaculate appearance

was nonsense

all wrong

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 82

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A game

of concentration

was better than

the hospital

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 79

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becoming a hermit

left her holding

a mixed blessing

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 74

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I saw beauty

changing, a fake

smile behind

dark eyes; caged

patronizing

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 71

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zombie-ized mother was

looking bland— dead

to interest,

to want

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 67

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help had been

burning to be free

and the fire’s

still burning

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 63

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want is

not unequivocal

if it

costs your mind

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 60

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I must sound crazy

to a normie

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 55

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