Are You Hungry? A Poem For Departure
for Karthik, departing
Who has twisted us like this, so that -
no matter what we do - we have the bearing
of a man going away...so we live,
forever saying farewell. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
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out of hearing -
New York >London>New York Adagio - All Night Crossing The Atlantic I Read Franz
Do not spurn any chance to mourn. Mourning is a kind of Return. - Norman Nightingale, from Small Favors of Mourning