2/4 TH

 

 

just before you ever really have,
have then

the heart, its principle business,
insurance

of unconventional ministration,
would have

my mouth, its portrait, Socratic,
Silk failure,

smooth you, primary supporters,
critics of

kissing France, I kiss you, critics
of mass

evasion, the scratch of drapery,
who again

have heart that not a line apart
vanishes

like a first rush of bees, started
like sweet

provoke, You woke, you paint
the years

to please, "Yes, we, deaf ears,
the years,

You're so against inward touch,
You're so

a thought though terrible I kiss
your cool

devices, like a portrait of a critic,
with the same

years, your portrait, Vietnam
appears

to wake up spinning a terrible
flexibility

at your skin, appoints again in
democratic

allies, not as me I would this
other man

that I try to kiss you, ticking
marvel

despite the facts, it would name
always

like a first deaf ear, if we had
to pick

to be like Father, crying before
supporters,

ticking to blush with flexibility
united with

this other polis, not me, who
later

I would try arresting, spells
deception,

eyes this other portrait, such
so you am

ending always, she do, you
fall asleep

in portrait, have had to be
this other,

and House agree to touch
in war, such

Vietnam as thought had
knack to

give, this other crying spell
yells shone

and gone, Silk, Union, me
as who later

gone crying, "Why did you
paint again

these eyes this other marvel
unmoored,

this other riot that vanishes
again in

outline, suppose while you
this other

man or by deception miss the
story, let's

break once, keenly, shimmer
of what's

so you, you and your ticking
blush, as

I would, sweetheart, we don't
give ed

to inward art, we give thought
to paint

a bee, to touch a face, in war to
have had

to be, writing this riot and again
required

writing, deception, exaggeration,
not as me

I would try not to marvel, begin
an outline,

House, Sweetheart, Vietnam, a
portrait

 

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Adam Good writes, "these poems are re-writes of the two poems in the July 4th issue of The New Yorker, and also use language from the surrounding articles."

 

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