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To cross the street, we had to crush some flowers.
Garret Schuelke
SourceLicence:Public domain
To cross the street, we had to crush some flowers.
Three short lines carry a surprisingly heavy moment. The speaker and someone else, since the poem says "we," need to get to the other side of a street, and the only way across is over a patch of flowers. Nothing dramatic happens. They simply do it, and the poem reports it plainly.
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