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Слушать(AI)Men at Forty
Men at
Learn to close
The doors to rooms they will not
Coming back to
Donald Justice
(August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980. In summing up Just
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The Man Closing Up, from Night Light (1967), would make his bed, If he could sleep on it He would make his bed with white And disappear into the white,
Sadness
Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents, Why were you so sad on porches, whispering What great melancholies were loosed among our swings
Pantoum Of The Great Depression
Our lives avoided Simply by going on and on, Without end and with little apparent meaning Oh, there were storms and small catastrophes
Loves Strategems
But these maneuverings to avoid The touching of hands, These shifts to keep the eyes employed On objects more or less neutral (As honor, for time being, commands) Will hardly prevent their downfall Stronger medicines are needed Alre...
