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An Ocean of Ocean
Tommy Bloom you devil!
I mean
Dear Tommy, You devil,
Carried on the wind some man you are again, and again, gone with some savior into the heart of it, that chase, in your heart or in you feet these days, and laying with the hay and fleas, it’s almost like we were brothers in [...]
May Incantation
How was it, that side of the world, when you sang to them?
How were they, and friend, how were the rolling waves of that sea?
And what carried they on their long, wet tongues?
Oh Tennessee, the wind here today carries everything.
What has been stuck for almost
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On Living – By: Nazim Hikmet
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Living is no laughing matter:
you must live with great seriousness
like a squirrel, for example–
I mean without looking for something beyond and above living,
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The Letters
Dearest M,
Today your letter, whatever version, found me. Again hanging from some wretched cliff, the asses and mules all gone again, fallen or eaten maybe. Only I remained of our small band, though now my heart’s Sherpa who carries, along with your epistle, the red weight without the smallest flinch and how we will [...]
In these hours
It’s often in these hours when things reach us most deeply, maybe it’s not, maybe it’s time to talk about myself or perhaps I should just be writing in a journal, one of those salty old books that line the walls of this dark hold, sitting on rotting boards, rotting themselves in the humid air, [...]
