There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die. (W. H. Auden)

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

W. H. Auden

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