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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. (10[1])For 10 points, the ending of “This Be The Verse” advises you to “Get (10[1])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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