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PUBLIC AFFECTION, Parts III & IV, Love in a Busy PlaceThis forum post is dated 08/25/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. - Subscriptions
| PUBLIC AFFECTION, Parts III & IV, Love in a Busy Place "And now, darling, I ask, might you ..." **NEED SUBSCRIPTIONS** Rate, Comment, PLEASE** www.stanleypacion.com WORDS & LINKS From an original poetic selection in his collected prose and verse entitled, A BIG BOOK OF MY OWN, stanleypacion.blogspot.com PUBLIC AFFECTION, Parts III & IV, Love in a Busy Place, A Poem in Six Parts Part III And now, darling, I ask, might you Reconsider the plus and the minus, loves ledger? Your skill at cost accounting, good, You must surmise how tiny the downside is, And know the total burden amounts to no great sum. Frugal, you never needlessly cast away a thing, Yet waste time. Squander the crafted continuum, The more than a year and a half, our life to date, Discard, wantonly, though you profess love, And write of your ardor for me still. Deaf to your beating bosom, Refusing when you already knew, You knew right from the start! Ach du Lieber Herr Gott! You deny your soul, your very passion for a man, Who would sacrifice his life for yours! In early youth I learned love, I caught its lyric while I listened to music on the radio. When I lived in Germany, half a life ago, American soldiers played it on the jukebox. And I heard it from Sweden on the web today, The youth channel, clear and loud, Singer and song, similar or the same, The moon, big and bright, in the Milky Way tonight, Oh, Yes! Its lyric hollers. Times a wasting, There are kisses not tasted, and the hook repeats Whole lot of living, whole lot of loving to do, The life, the love and <b>...</b> |
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