november

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Some aggravations include the whole world.

What can you do?  An old pulp-cutter

Longs to die, imagines

The Easter nails.

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On his Icelandic farm, Guttorm hears

The news: his two sons

Dead.  He pulls the covers

Up over his head.

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Some oak leaves hang, others fall.

The body says, "It's all right

To die.  It's not an insult

To the world."

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~ Robert Bly
from Morning Poems

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