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FROM Poems 1934-1969 (1970) Adolescence I too have been drawn in by a silken cord hung from her waist, my form clapped to hers and freedom restrained to our movement together. Caught and the fields at our backs we look past each other's face but see our stretched necks and taut cheeks straining. Is this the love I ran after, crying to it to turn and catch me up? Whoever I chased ran over the length of the world. The Folk Singer The other day I heard in the movies a man sing a song,just like he told your own troubles; he sang so beautiful, just like you feel it, it was just like in life: your ambitions when you're young, and end up in a shoe store; it was so good, and everybody clapped as if he could hear from the screen, it was so beautiful how he sang. 3 ...

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