Thursday, January 1, 1981

WORDS FROM THE PERSIAN:


WORDS FROM THE PERSIAN:  


1. When things get unbearable
I repeat Leonard’s line
over and over like a mantra:

Words from the Persian:
limes, sherbet,
                  pajamas,
                           paradise.

Imagining a dark world without them.


2. Later, I told him how his lines
bring me small comfort.
­He said, It’s wonderful,
but I never wrote it.  



DATE? 1981-82?

rev. 7.7.1994







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