fr. 2
All We as Leaves He {following Homer} compares man's life with the leaves.
All we as leaves in the shock of it: spring-
one dull gold bounce and you're there. You see the sun? - I built that.
As a lad. The Fates lashing their tails in a corner. But {let me think} wasn't it a hotel in Chicago where I had the first of those - my body walking out of the room bent on some deadly errand
and me up on the ceiling just sort of fading out- brainsex paintings I used to call them?
In the days when I {so to speak} painted. Remember
that oddly wonderful chocolate we got in East {as it was then} Berlin?"
All We as Leaves He {following Homer} compares man's life with the leaves.
All we as leaves in the shock of it: spring-
one dull gold bounce and you're there. You see the sun? - I built that.
As a lad. The Fates lashing their tails in a corner. But {let me think} wasn't it a hotel in Chicago where I had the first of those - my body walking out of the room bent on some deadly errand
and me up on the ceiling just sort of fading out- brainsex paintings I used to call them?
In the days when I {so to speak} painted. Remember
that oddly wonderful chocolate we got in East {as it was then} Berlin?"
( Anne Carson )
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