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little soul little flirting	A
little perverse one	B
where are you off to now	C
little wan one firm one	B
little exposed one	B
and never make fun of me again	D
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Now I must betray myself	E
The feast of bondage and unity is near	F
And none engaged in that great piety	G
When each bows to the other kneels and takes	H
Hand in hand glance and glance care and care	I
None may wear masks or enigmatic clothes	J
For weakness blinds the wounded face enough	K
In sense see my shocking nakedness	J
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I gave a girl an apple when five years old	L
Saying Will you be sorry when I am gone	M
Ravenous for such courtesies my name	N
Is fed like a raving fire insatiate still	O
But do not be afraid	P
For I forget myself I do indeed	Q
Before each genuine beauty and I will	O
Forget myself before your unknown heart	R
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I will forget the speech my mother made	P
In a restaurant trapping my father there	I
At dinner with his whore Her spoken rage	S
Struck down the child of seven years	J
With shame for all three with pity for	T
The helpless harried waiter with anger for	T
The diners gazing avid and contempt	U
And great disgust for every human being	A
I will remember this My mother's rhetoric	V
Has charmed my various tongue but now I know	W
Love's metric seeks a rhyme more pure and sure	X
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For thus it is that I betray myself	E
Passing the terror of childhood at second hand	Y
Through nervous learned fingertips	J
At thirteen when a little girl died	Z
I walked for three weeks neither alive nor dead	A2
And could not understand and still cannot	B2
The adult blind to the nearness of the dead	A2
Or carefully ignorant of their own death	C2
This sense could shadow all the time's curving fruits	J
But we will taste of them the whole night long	D2
Forgetting no twelfth night no fete of June	E2
But in the daylight knowing our nothingness	J
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Let Freud and Marx be wedding guests indeed	Q
Let them mark out masks that face us there	I
For of all anguish weakness loss and failure	F2
No form is cruel as self deception none	B
Shows day by day a bad dream long lived	G2
And unbroken like the lies	J
We tell each other because we are rich or poor	H2
Though from the general guilt not free	G
We can keep honor by being poor	H2
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The waste the evil the abomination	B
Is interrupted the perfect stars persist	I2
Small in the guilty night	J2
and Mozart shows	J
The irreducible incorruptible good	K2
Risen past birth and death though he is dead	A2
Hope like a face reflected on the windowpane	L2
Remote and dim fosters a myth or dream	M2
And in that dream I speak I summon all	N2
Who are our friends somehow and thus I say	J
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Bid the jewellers come with monocles	J
Exclaiming Pure Intrinsic Final	O2
Summon the children eating ice cream	M2
To speak the chill thrill of immediacy	J
Call for the acrobats who tumble	O2
The ecstasy of the somersault	P2
Bid the self sufficient stars be piercing	A
In the sublime and inexhaustible blue	Q2
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Bring a mathematician there is much to count	R2
The unending continuum of my attention	B
Infinity will hurry his multiplied voice	J
Bring the poised impeccable diver	F2
Summon the skater precise in figure	F2
He knows the peril of circumstance	J
The risk of movement and the hard ground	S2
Summon the florist And the tobacconist	S2
All who have known a plant like beauty	S2
Summon the charming bird for ignorant song	D2
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You Athena with your tired beauty	S2
Will you give me away For you must come	T2
In a bathing suit with that white owl	U2
Whom as I walk I will hold in my hand	S2
You too Crusoe to utter the emotion	B
Of finding Friday no longer alone	V2
You too Chaplin muse of the curbstone	V2
Mummer of hope you understand	S2
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But this is fantastic and pitiful	O2
And no one comes none will we are alone	V2
And what is possible is my own voice	J
Speaking its wish despite its lasting fear	F
Speaking of its hope its promise and its fear	F
The voice drunk with itself and rapt in fear	F
Exaggeration braggadocio	J
Rhetoric and hope and always fear	F
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For fifty six or for a thousand years	J
I will live with you and be your friend	S2
And what your body and what your spirit bears	J
I will like my own body cure and tend	S2
But you are heavy and my body's weight	S2
Is great and heavy when I carry you	Q2
I lift upon my back time like a fate	S2
Near as my heart dark when I marry you	Q2
The voice's promise is easy and hope	W2
Is drunk and wanton and unwilled	S2
In time's quicksilver where our desires grope	W2
The dream is warped or monstrously fulfilled	S2
In this sense listen listen and draw near	F
Love is inexhaustible and full of fear	F
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This life is endless and my eyes are tired	S2
So that again and again I touch a chair	I
Or go to the window press my face	J
Against it hoping with substantial touch	X2
Colorful sight or turning things to gain once more	T
The look of actuality the certainty	S2
Of those who run down stairs and drive a car	Y2
Then let us be each other's truth let us	J
Affirm the other's self and be	S2
The other's audience the other's state	S2
Each to the other his sonorous fame	N
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Now you will be afraid when waking up	Z2
Before familiar morning by my mute side	S2
Wan and abandoned then when waking up	Z2
You see the lion or lamb upon my face	J
Or see the daemon breathing heavily	S2
His sense of ignorance his wish to die	S2
For I am nothing because my circus self	E
Divides its love a million times	J
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I am the octopus in love with God	S2
For thus is my desire inconclusible	S2
Until my mind deranged in swimming tubes	J
Issues its own darkness clutching seas	J
O God of my perfect ignorance	J
Bring the New Year to my only sister soon	E2
Take from me strength and power to bless her head	S2
Give her the magnitude of secular trust	S2
Until she turns to me in her troubled sleep	A3
Seeing me in my wish free from self wrongs	J

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