well it takes one to know one, kid, i think you got it bad

Kurt Vonnegut to JFK, August 1960

i was up all night again, boning up and reading the American dictionary
you’ll never believe me what i found

think i better follow you around

[now i have been quiet in the early]

now i have been quiet in the early

rumblings of morning thunder and rustling

bed sheets my time has come to answer god

and come to my senses do you believe

 

that i could be so evil or so cruel

do you believe in me anymore I

would not fault you if you said softly no

your sins are not forgiven your love is

 

a false pretense an impulse of demons

a projection of senses a river’s

bed waiting for rain or water or a

rush of salt blood from your wounds you might ask

 

do you need love more than you need me

do you need nothing and want everything

In the smallest hours of the morning
while I was busy dreaming
of tender hearted girls
and a world without end
forever and ever amen

i should live in salt / for leaving you behind

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e. e. cummings (1894-1962)