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Allen Tate - The Meaning Of LifeAllen Tate - The Meaning Of Life
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A Monologue Think about it at will: there is that Which is the commentary; there`s that other, Which may be called the immaculate Conception of its essence in itself. It is necessary to distinguish the weights Of the two methods lest the first smother The second, the second be speechless (without the first). I was saying this more briefly the other day But one must be explicit as well as brief. When I was a small boy I lived at home For nine years in that part of old Kentucky Where the mountains fringe the Blue Grass, The old men shot at one another for luck; It made me think I was like none of them. At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance- In killing there is more than commentary. One`s sense of the proper decoration alters But there`s a kind of lust feeds on itself Unspoken to, unspeaking; subterranean As a black river full of eyeless fish Heavy with spawn; with a passion for time Longer than the arteries of a cave.
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