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Posted 2024-03-23 08:15:06
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
      Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
      My hasting days fly on with full career,
      But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth
      That I to manhood am arriv'd so near;
      And inward ripeness doth much less appear,
      That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th.
Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow,
      It shall be still in strictest measure ev'n
      To that same lot, however mean or high,
Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heav'n:
      All is, if I have grace to use it so
      As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.

-John Milton

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Posted 2024-03-23 08:15:40
april breath
of  boyish red
the tongue crushes
strawberry dreams

                                  hack away wound
                                  and wound the fountain

and on the mouth
perspiration white
from someone's neck

a little tooth
has bit the finger
of  the bride the
                                  tabby yellow and sere
                                  howls

the red boy
from the gable flies
an animal hearkens
in his white throat
                                  his juice runs down
                                  pigeon thighs

a pale sweet spike
still sticks
in woman white
lard

an april breath
of  boyish red

-Elfriede Jelinek

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