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this is important enough:

to get your feelings down,

it is better than shaving

or cooking beans with garlic.

it is the little we can do

this small bravery of knowledge

and there is of course

madness and terror too

in knowing

that some part of you

wound up like a clock

can never be wound again

once it stops.

but now

there’s a ticking under your shirt

and you whirl the beans with a spoon,

one love dead, one love departed

another love . . .

ah! as many loves as beans

yes, count them now

sad, sad

your feelings boiling over flame,

get this down.