A NEW SONG

I must learn a new song...


for so long I followed Catullus and his

odi et amo


but now I've tended the common root

from which hate and love spring


now though nothing's changed

everything is still different


and my screech slowly refines itself

to a song of no winners or losers


but all who get exactly

for what they have readied themselves


weep and embrace? be joyful and embrace?

either way an embrace draws notes to the throat


and the sound is a song of repentance...




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