Moon Babe

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say

Me, sniffling: I didn’t realize, I can’t, it’s so much, I, I… are the chips good, at least?

Good People W.S. Merwin

From the kindness of my parents   I suppose it was that I held   that belief about suffering   imagining that if only   it could come to the attention   of any person with normal   feelings certainly anyone   literate who might have gone   to college they would comprehend   pain when it went on before them   and would do something about it   whenever they saw it happen   in the time of pain the present   they would try to stop the bleeding   for example with their own hands   but it escapes their attention   or there may be reasons for it   the victims under the blankets   the meat counters the maimed children   the animals the animals   staring from the end of the world

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Lots more Merwin.

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