by Tom Clark
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Twenty-Something Couple |
We don't know any more about each other than that which we can see; we stand with a magnifying glass in the middle of the Milky Way. And what we see isn't real either; we know absolutely nothing, we are divided and alone, we stand outside, we are but impatient onlookers, and we know less still about our own selves. -- Lars Saabye Christensen, The Half Brother
The exclusive business of the wooing Scene's exploiting the awareness gap That separates the lovers from each other And both of them from us: We share with her A sense of curious anticipation -- Wondering if he'll wake up to being fooled, She lets her cool eyes, patrolling the cafe, Signal things to him she doesn't quite mean -- As though in an intention field a child Playing with chessmen went through the motions Of taking a king--Did you mean to mate him?-- Soon they'll be falling in one another's arms Taking turns at gulling and being gulled, Often gulling and gulled at the same time.
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