“Two-Headed Poems” by Margaret Atwood

“The heads speak sometimes singly, sometimes

  together, sometimes alternately within a poem…

  but we are not foreigners

  to each other; we are the pressure

  on the inside of the skull…

  

 “You can’t live here without breathing

  someone else’s air,

  air that has been used to shape

  these hidden words that are not yours…” (1, pp. 59-69)

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  1. Margaret Atwood. Two-Headed Poems. NewYork, Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1978.