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| We find out the heart only by dismantling what |
| the heart knows. By redefining the morning, |
| we find a morning that comes just after darkness. |
| We can break through marriage into marriage. |
| By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond |
| affection and wade mouth-deep into love. |
| We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. |
| But going back toward childhood will not help. |
| The village is not better than Pittsburgh. |
| Only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh. |
| Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound |
| of raccoon tongues licking the inside walls |
| of the garbage tub is more than the stir |
| of them in the muck of the garbage. Love is not |
| enough. We die and are put into the earth forever. |
| We should insist while there is still time. We must |
| eat through the wildness of her sweet body already |
| in our bed to reach the body within that body. |
