tail frisks)
(gonE)
“mouse”,
We are not the same you and
i, since here’s a little he
or is
it It
? (or was something we saw in the mirror)?
therefore we’ll kiss;for maybe
what was Disappeared
into ourselves
who (look). ,startled
IV
but if i should say
goodmorning trouble adds
up all sorts of quickly
things on the slate of that
nigger’s
face(but
If i should say thankyouverymuch
mr rosenbloom picks strawberries
with beringed hands)but if
i Should say solong my
tailor
chuckles
like a woman in a dream(but if i
should say
Now the all saucers
but cups if begin to spoons dance every-
should where say over the damned table and we
hold lips Eyes everything
hands you know what
happens)but if i should,
Say,
V
in spite of everything
which breathes and moves, since Doom
(with white longest hands
neatening each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds
--before leaving my room
i turn, and(stooping
through the morning)kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.
VI
you are not going to, dear. You are not going to and
i but that doesn’t in the least matter. The big
fear Who held us deeply in His fist is
no longer, can you imagine it
i can’t which doesn’t matter
and what does is possibly this dear, that we may resume
impact with the inutile collide
once more with the imaginable,love,and eat sunlight(do
you believe it? i begin to and that doesn’t matter)which
i suggest teach us a new terror always
which shall brighten
carefully these things we consider life.
Dear i put my eyes into you but that doesn’t matter
further than of old
because you fooled the doctors,i touch you with hopesand
words and with so and so: we are together, we will
kiss or smile or move. It’s different too isn’t it
different dear from moving as we, you
and i,used to move when i thought you were going to(but
that doesn’t matter)
when you thought you were going to America.
Then
moving was a matter of not keeping still;we were
two alert lice in the blond hair of nothing
VII
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
VIII
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