Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.

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Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs. While it sounds somewhat macabre, this is a famous poem written by Pablo Neruda about his mother. The lines have been translated into English as: “Little deer, I have stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs." The poem is from "Residence on Earth," a collection of Neruda's poetry published in 1967.

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