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For All Friends
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For All Friends Talking together, we advance from loneliness to where words fall off into space and send up no echo. Looking down for instruction, we gaze into the crease and fold of each other's face. We are falling, our flesh aged by life's upward force. Our words are buried in the falling air. Deep in the ground, we will be one with our words, for earth too falls towards eternity. Simulacrum The world is made up of cabdrivers, truck drivers, bus drivers and ministers of state who discuss whether or not another war is due among bus, truck and cabmen of the world; and if not, for how long peace can beenforced. Each minister in the dignity of his office ponders aloud all sides with eclat; while from the street rises the all consuming roar of his constituents. The Reward They who love me stand in my way of being taken care of and fondled; they call on me for help. I am afraid, after all, that to scream and rant will be my downfall. They will see me coming and run, and I will die of loneliness; and so you see me either accompanyingmy wife 36 | Poems of the1950s ...