Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. A…

Banana Yoshimoto
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Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable. ✨ Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). Three Plays, p.82, Grove Press
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Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable. ✨ Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). Three Plays, p.82, Grove Press

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