Never Tell Someone They're Beautiful If They Already Know It.
"What is most curious about America is that no matter what you say about it...
it is always true." O.W.
where no profane foot has ever set 
will remember this hour
till I die:
"Those people have taken advantage of us..."
and the rest of us stood naked in the rain,
a neat line waiting,
not saying anything,
but he barked from an ignorant angry throat,
"Those people have taken advantage;"
Did he speak for himself or for
the rest of the sun bronzed giants?
Portraits of history made stone
pillars to butress lesser acomplishments.
It was want, whose name alone was vulgarity.
rats leave the sinking ship but we...
we didn't leave, so the ship didn't sink,
and that's madness,
Fitfull Un-Realization of the Limits of Force of Planetary Gravity
-or- This is How We Learned to Walk on the Moon.
As if the sun would be put out and be born again.
To be able to be dragged out,
to be whipped as a kind of Christ.
don’t remain in history.
They lack spasmodicality.
or at least would be finely shaken,
I’d remember it.
yours, yours, yours, is always the first thing, no matter the age.
...As Will Also When Even The Callous Have Worn Tender
I, too, sing America.
when company comes,
but I laugh,
and eat well,
and grow strong.
when company comes.
And nobody'll dare say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen," then.
Besides, they'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed--
I, too, am America.
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