Against Rage
–Frank BidartHe had not been denied the world. Terrible
scenes that he clung to because they taught himthe world will at last be buried with him.
As well as the exhilarations. Now,he thinks each new one will be the last one.
The last new page. The last sex. Each human
being’s story, he tells nobody, is a boat
cutting through the night. As starless blacknessapproaches, the soul reverses itself, in
the eerie acceptance of finitude.
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