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Karen Finley

  • “We are sheep with no straight / and narrow; / We are sheep with no meadow. / We are sheep who take the / dangerous pathway thru / the mountain range / to get to the other side of / our soul. / We are the black sheep of / the family / Called Black Sheep folk.”

    • Karen Finley,
    • "The Black Sheep, We Keep Our Victims Ready," public poem cast in bronze ()

Karen Finley, U.S. performance artist

(1956)