Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The Day of Intensity


One's instruments cannot measure this 
Feeling in the space between two bodies
Lacuna of desire embodied in a clicking
Tongue to count one’s footsteps down
Streets whose names are changed whose
Houses all are rearranged O the same old story
One knows this tired tale the selfsame props
A dead man reads a newspaper an onion slices
Itself in equal halves and go ahead and laugh
If one feels that way for this is on one’s mind
Until forever or until the mathematicians quit
Applauding and one thinks a good deal then
Of the casual fistfights of youth the bloody grins
After and what they might have meant



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