And let her loves, when she is dead,
Write this above her bones:
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You waste the attention of your eyes,
the glittering labour of your hands,
and knead the dough enough for dozens of loaves
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Groping back to bed after a piss
I part the thick curtains, and am startled by
The rapid clouds, the moon’s cleanliness.
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Someone was saying
something about shadows covering the field, about
how things pass, how one sleeps towards morning
and the morning goes.
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With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!
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There was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend,
And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming,
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O THE sad day!
When friends shall shake their heads, and say
Of miserable me–
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You’re sad because you’re sad.
It’s psychic. It’s the age. It’s chemical.
Go see a shrink or take a pill,
or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll
you need to sleep.
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