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   After Reading a Child'sGuide to Modern Physics (1961)If all a top physicist knowsAbout the Truth be true,Then, for all the so-and-so's,Futility and grime,Our common world contains,We have a better timeThan the Greater Nebulae do,Or the atoms in our brains.Marriage is rarely blissBut, surely it would be worseAs particles to peltAt thousands of miles per secAbout a universeWherein a lover's kissWould either not be feltOr break the loved one's neck.

Though the face at which I stareWhile shaving it be cruelFor, year after year, it repelsAn ageing suitor, it has,Thank God, sufficient massTo be altogether there,Not an indeterminate gruelWhich is partly somewhere else...

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12 Comments:. Blogger enar arshad said... wow.....i like auden,there is abeautiful piece LAW IS LIKE LOVE. he must be really talented to weaved serious stuff into poetry. thank you for sharing this. 3:22 PM, February 23, 2007; Anonymous ...

It wasn't so much his message, but his self-absorbed lack of self-awareness when speaking, use of flighty rhetorical flourishes in an almost cartoonish way, and a tendency to go for the fireworks sound-bite. ...

There's a perfectly rational argument to be made to simply ban all holidays, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Independence Day (all those terrifying fireworks!), etc., not excepted. While we're at it, let's bring back Prohibition. ...

a "middling" poem can seem stronger in a grouping of others that don't overwhelm it in tone or verbal fireworks, or between an essay and a short story, etc., but the same poem might get stomped if it ends up between more ______ poems. ...

If it were an actual party with actual physical proximity and drinks (and being a crasher myself), I'd probably just slink off, or stand mutely waiting for fireworks (maybe someone will pour a drink on someone's head, like someone did ...