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for Valentine's Day
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Alone, with friends,
a date, amid a crowd
I shuffle up an incline,
down a stairs.
Why does the music
always seem so loud?
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Beside him, silent, stately,
on his right,
the old magician's
fair assistant stands alert, yet selfless,
keeping out of..
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"Tunc praecurrit comis..."
Years ago, St. Jerome--
Don't give me that look!
I'm NOT off the subject
and this is NOT a s..
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Sharp trickster,
how we loved to watch you tie
our muddled minds into a knotted maze.
Your jests and jokes
did twist each ..
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Just stop and listen.
Don't you have some song or other
all day running 'round your brain?
Why THAT tune?
Each one's driving me insane.
Some..
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It doesn't have to be
a germ at wait.
Just anything
my body thinks is strange,
some substance
I inhaled or touched or ate
and inst..
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Perhaps you don't want me
to know you're done.
Your thought's complete.
Perhaps you don't want me to note
an insert,
cl..
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'But Poetry's dead.'
They say
(and Art and Drama, Music too)
No Muse. No Bard.
'To write in verse and meter's
simply wr..
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That brilliant paradox
on Keats' Urn would seem
the pinnacle of art.
But truth is rarely beautiful
I've learned
and beauty's sel..
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