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You think I like this 5.stupidness! -
6.gallivanting all night without skin,
1.burning myself out like cane-fire
2.to frighten the foolish?
2.And for what? A few drops of baby blood?
2.You think I wouldn't rather take my blood seasoned in fat black-pudding, like everyone else?
And don't even talk 'bout the pain of salt and having to bend these old bones down to count a thousand grains of rice!

If only babies didn't smell so nice!
And if I could only stop hearing 3.the soft, soft call of that 7.pure blood running in new veins,
4.singing the sweet song of life tempting an old, dry-up woman who been
8.holding her final note for years and years, afraid of the dying hum ...

Then again, if I didn't fly and come to that 9.fresh pulse in the middle of the night, 2.how would you, mother, name your ancient dread?
2.And who to blame for the murder inside your head ...?
Believe me -
As long as it have women giving birth a poor ol' higue like me can never dead.

McWatt, M. 'Ol' Higue' in A World of Prose. Edited by Mark McWatt and Hazel Simmonds McDonald. Pearson Education Ltd, 2005.

This is the OPINION of one individual, which might not coincide with the views of others.

LITERAL MEANING
In this poem, the Ol' Higue / soucouyant tells of her frustration with her lifestyle. She does not like the fact that she sometimes has to parade around, in the form of a fireball, without her skin at night. She explains that she has to do this in order to scare people, as well as to acquire baby blood. She explains that she would rather acquire this blood via cooked food, like every-one else. Her worst complaint is the pain of salt, as well as having to count rice grains. She exhibits some regret for her lifestyle but implies that she cannot resist a baby's

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