The speaker of a Mina Loy poem titled for this action claims, “The business of the bland sun / has no affair with me” and says, “I am the centre / Of a circle.” A collection titled for this action closes with the advice, “When the men come, set yourself on fire.” In a poetry collection titled for this action, the immigrant speaker claims, “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark” in the poem “Conversations About Home.” A Warsan Shire chapbook is titled (*) Teaching My Mother How to do this action. This action is decried at the end of a poem that describes “fools in old-style hats and coats” and mourns how “Man hands on misery to man / It deepens like a coastal shelf.” The opening line of “The Munich Mannequins” claims “Perfection is terrible” because it cannot do this action. For 10 points, the ending of “This Be The Verse” advises you to “Get out as early as you can” and don’t do what action? ■END■
ANSWER: giving birth [accept childbirth or parturition or having kids or equivalents; accept Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth; prompt on teaching my mother until read; reject “pregnancy”] (The first poem is Mina Loy’s “Parturition.”)
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