Sad Boy's Sad Boy
I ruin my hats and all the mat slides glad
I hop my girls and all is skip again
I jump I run you up inside my truck . . .
I ruin my hats and all the mat slides glad
I hop my girls and all is skip again
I jump I run you up inside my truck . . .
Maud went to college.
Sadie stayed at home.
Sadie scraped life . . .
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -
Untouched by Morning -
and untouched by noon - . . .
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower, . . .
Some are teethed on a silver spoon,
With the stars strung for a rattle;
I cut my teeth as the black raccoon— . . .
Say not the struggle nought availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth, . . .
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; . . .
I was ill, lying on my bed of old papers,
when you came with white rabbits in your arms;
and the doves scattered upwards, flying to mothers, . . .
A man and a woman are sitting at a table.
It is supper time. The air is green. The walls
Are white in the green air, as rocks under water . . .