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the strange loneliness of the present
After Making Love
by Stephen Dunn
No one should ask the other
"What were you thinking?"
No one, that is,
who doesn't want to hear about the past
and its inhabitants,
or the strange loneliness of the present
filled, even as it may be, with pleasure
or those snapshots
of the future, different heads
on different bodies.
Some people actually desire honesty.
They must never have broken
into their own solitary houses
after having misplaced the key,
never seen with an intruder's eyes
what is theirs.
Poem via Riese
September 17, 2009 in 100 Songs, collaborations, MP3, Quotes | Permalink
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