Bread & Roses

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Our lives shall not be sweetened From birth until life closes Hearts starve as well as bodies Give us bread, but give us roses Bread & Roses, Judy Collins The old man at the grocer y store used to laugh with no humor. ”Bread and circuses,” he’d say—feed the people and you can control them. On a hot night’s fire escape, she placed like tarot cards three objects: a book of James Oppenheim’s poetry, a weathered guitar, and a single red rose. As kitchen windows betrayed the sounds of women, toiling in the thousands, baking tomorrow’s bread, she came upon a more beautiful idea. Notes Top - Fresh baguette, sweet orange, familiar warmth Middle - Red rose petals Base - Cocoa, nutmeg, labdanum Show more