She would be strong
and she would
free her passions
and taste of pleasures.
A woman
once inflexible
against her weakness
will by a string,
flutter in every wind;
always some desire
draws her on.
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This poem was cut from a section of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, in the Classic Lit Blackout Games shown below:
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