火球

Marriage? I thought
I was married to my books.
The only thing
I thought I could care for deeply
was a correctly constructed sentence.
The subject, predicate, adverbial clause,
each in its proper place, and then you...
You see, I've had rather a curious life.
I graduated from Princeton when I was 13.
I recited Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright
when I was a year old.
Before I was two, I could read fluently.
People like that just, well...
You see, dust just piles up on their hearts.
And it took you to blow it away.

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Yes, I love him.
I love those hick shirts he wears
with the boiled cuffs.
And the way he always has
his vest buttoned wrong.
Looks like a giraffe and I love him.
I love him because he's the kind of a guy
that gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk.
And I love the way
he blushes right up over his ears.
I love him because he doesn't know
how to kiss, the jerk.
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I'm a man in love.It's the first time in my life.
I want to take her in my arms.
I thought because I was young. I had self-control but that's not true.
I think of her every waking moment.
Why, if this marriage had been delayed,
I mean, should have been delayed.I mean, should be...
Listen to that.
Oddly, I don't know my tenses anymore. I've gone goofy, completely goofy,bim-buggy, slap-happy.

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You must get me out of your mind
just as I must get you out of this house.
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A little sun on my hair
and you had to water your neck.

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After you've declared your feelings,
it's the only logical step to take

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"Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger.Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart.Wear both of them, for both of them are thine."