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 - . . .
Often visitors there, saddened
by lack of trees, go out
to a promontory. . . .
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower, . . .
You who I don’t know I don’t know how to talk to you
—What is it like for you there? . . .
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; . . .