PrinceMyshkin
07-21-2008, 08:30 PM
You sweethearts of the further domains
who go by pseudonyms here
and who knows but that in what
has come to be known as “real life”
the whole of your self is a pseudonym
for your as yet unknown, maybe
never to be known actual self,
that self which you sometimes love
and sometimes hate immoderately
and sometimes love and hate both
in the same unavoidable swoop
of a machete! You sweethearts
of the further domains, whom I encounter
here each morning and read your songs
of love for one another
or of others even more unknown,
your griefs, your triumphs
or puzzlements, it is not only camels
or the very rich who cannot pass
through the eye of the needle
but the most ordinary extraordinary
of us...
You sweethearts of the further domains:
I now salute you, one and all!
who go by pseudonyms here
and who knows but that in what
has come to be known as “real life”
the whole of your self is a pseudonym
for your as yet unknown, maybe
never to be known actual self,
that self which you sometimes love
and sometimes hate immoderately
and sometimes love and hate both
in the same unavoidable swoop
of a machete! You sweethearts
of the further domains, whom I encounter
here each morning and read your songs
of love for one another
or of others even more unknown,
your griefs, your triumphs
or puzzlements, it is not only camels
or the very rich who cannot pass
through the eye of the needle
but the most ordinary extraordinary
of us...
You sweethearts of the further domains:
I now salute you, one and all!