Classic poem of the day
ODE LII.
A WAY , away, ye men of rules,
What have I do with schools?
They 'd make me learn, they 'd make me think,
But would they make me love and drink?
Teach me this, and let me swim
My soul upon the goblet's brim;
Teach me this, and let me twine
Some fond, responsive heart to mine,
For, age begins to blanch my brow,
I've time for naught but pleasure now.
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That first time, twinkling
party lights looped the first
crowd – the one I heard
like Thom Yorke, like beats
are words breathing
down my neck.
The door opened for you.
You hovered so close –
so close because you liked
my neck, the way the chain
fell around it, the spangle
balancing like a pendulum.
The way you darted when
I came downstairs with
the tall one I didn’t know,
an......
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