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Kitten (self pity)

I hear kitten pawing
Cheap rug above my head
The plain fact, you see,
He is one flight closer
To a moon than I becomes
A frightening idea in my mind, almost dawn
Trying to raise the body’s warmth
Tomorrow
I will never be twenty-three years old again.

(1974)

7/30/74

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