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from “An Attempt at Jealousy” | The Poetry Foundation

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How is your life with an ordinary woman? How’s your life with a tourist on Earth? How’s life? How’s it going, with an earthly woman, with no sixth sense?…

Share How is your life with that other one? Simpler, is it? A stroke of the oars and a long coastline— and the memory of me is soon a drifting island (not in the ocean—in the sky!) Souls—you will be sisters— sisters, not lovers. How is your life with an ordinary woman? without the god inside her? The queen supplanted— How do you breathe now? Flinch, waking up? What do you do, poor man? “Hysterics and interruptions— enough! I’ll rent my own house!” How is your life with that other, you, my own. Is the breakfast delicious? (If you get sick, don’t blame me!) How is it, living with a postcard? You

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from “An Attempt at Jealousy” | The Poetry Foundation

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