Every Time I Kiss You
Every time I kiss
After a long separationI feelI am putting a hurried love
In a red mailbox
Translated by B
Every time I kiss
After a long separationI feelI am putting a hurried love
In a red mailbox
Translated by B
My old clock used to tell the time and subdivide diurnity; but now its lost both hands and chime and only tells eternity
First time he kissed me, he but only
The finger of this hand wherewith I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white,
Slow to world-greetings, quick with its "Oh, list,"When the angels speak
Was there a time when dancers with their
In children's circuses could stay their troubles
There was a time they could cry over books,
But time has sent its maggot on their track
Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west,
Latin writing, from west to east
Languages are like cats:
You must not stroke their hair the wrong way
What is death,
I ask
What is life, you ask
I give them both my buttocks, my two wheels rolling off toward Nirvana
The first time that the sun rose on thine
To love me,
I looked forward to the
To slacken all those bonds which seemed too
Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet,
Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid,
Since I have known your soul, and all the bloom of it,
And all the perfume rare, now buried in the shade; Since it was given t...
Does time exist
I gravely doubt it
But gosh, what should we dowithout it
It's hard to know if you're alive or dead When steel and fire go roaring through your head
One moment you'll be crouching at your gun Traversing, mowing heaps down half in fun:
The next, you choke and clutch at your right breast - No tim...
Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent
With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk
Only a thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass;
Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass...
The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive life, not to take sides
Leave it for children, and the emotional rabble of the streets, to back their horse or support a brawler
But if you are forced into it: remember that good and ...