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Can We? Can we convincingly pretend, And not to others but ourselves, That we are happy? And if we could, Would that mean that we were, pro tem, Uncomplicatedly, just that, Happy? And what would that be like? The mind runs through its obvious Loved carnal candidates . . . Well, maybe. But probably it would resemble Less some celestial debauch With someone quite phenomenal Than being in a symphony By Haydn: having all of it— It doesn’t matter much which one— The whole ebullient edifice, Just there, available and real, Impossibly to hand, forever. 30 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...

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