Sunday, June 09, 2013

May All These Dispersed and Vigorous Words Be United

 
We are pushed by an idea as hardly gentle
As the passive voice in how we say tonight
Somewhere behind the things that interest
Us and our generous self-pity our gorgeous lust
Is this entirely Duke Ellingtonian this fly-by-night
Possibility quite handsomely dead before we
Even sing holy smokes before we sing our song!
Several days ago stripped of what we shall
Finally master no one knows our dreams but us
We who won’t take can’t for an answer we who
Take spite if that’s all we got an entirely too small
Love but enough quite sadly tiny margins are
Who gives a fuck? We said Duke Ellington what?
Up the stairs in an apartment our withered what

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