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There was a time
only certainty gave me
any joy. Imagine —
certainty, a dead thing.
Louise Glück
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In the window, the moon is hanging over the earth,
meaningless but full of messages.
It's dead, it's always been dead,
but it pretends to be something else,
burning like a star, and convincingly, so that you feel sometimes
it could actually make something grow on earth.
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And you never say
Leave me
since the dead do not like being alone.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Louise Glück
Born:
April 22, 1943
Died:
October 13, 2023
(aged 80)
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