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IN RETROSPECT
You might as well
be locked in a cage
and I the visitor
to feed you there
with cheapest nuts
(I call them thoughts)
for all the difference
it seems to makeo
No, it is not the fault
of the caf@, it is not,
believe me, the time or place
but the haphazard destinies,
yours and mine,
that close us in, saving
from this London season
nothing rare or true
but only a familiar view,
the invisible landscape of love,
The spring was late but I was impatient. I used too many words, and now I know:
There is a point in being obscure about the luminous, the pure musical phases of living which ought to be delicately improvised and left alone.