Sauve qui peut. To survive
we’d all turn thief
and rascal, or so says the fox,
with her coat of an elegant scoundrel,
her white knife of a smile,
who knows just where she’s going:
to steal something
that doesn’t belong to her -
some chicken, or one more chance,
or other life.
— Margaret Atwood
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