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Durer's Angel With The Key To The Bottomless Pit
Mensch! Look: Where once life was
now you must

sit, unglued, making yourself caress
th'fresh cut grass.

Now you must trace the birds' wild songs
on tape, to drown th'traffics of the Dawn

methodical--You must, so forcibly,
fulfill th'Force of Nature finely through

wiry modern nerves--Too quickly now
do you resign the Laurel

to (th'blind dump) of Once's hallowed Memory

O Mensch! Something is wrong:
You are Yourself too much

and O so little of the World!

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