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                 "If this room is our world, then let

                  This world be damned."

                              --Weldon Kees (1914-1955)



              

And should I say that life has any meaning?

And should I write of some eternal blissful love?



The bitter truth has touched me

Way too many times--

My only shield is my undying faith--

Faith that one day our love will overcome

This sense of emptiness, this sense of dark despair--



Look at this world -- how fake these loud bards,

How utterly absurd, how ridiculous! --



I want to live in truth, I want no lies

Or phony celebrations of life's miracles,

I want to strip this world of rooms with empty beds,

Of mindless daily rituals and clocks, of people dying

Of sheer loneliness.



I want to breathe new warmth into your flesh,

Setting afire these endless volumes of

Hollow, pointless literature.  I want to set this night

Ablaze with our love.





                               August 26, 2004