[What is the carol for that?
Is it the song of nevertheless,
or of the empire of our heart?] We carry
language as our mind, but are we
the dead whale that sinks grandly
for years to reach the bottom of us?

Jack Gilbert, from “What Song Should We Sing”
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Posted by leopoldgursky
∞  February 25, 2012
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