translated from Rosmarie Waldrop ...

translated from Rosmarie Waldrop

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WHAT ALL get tos CLEAR on such a morning. You
are still
the same as yesterday
or
at least present the appearance to be, no
matter what
you think of yourself. ("Better throttle
than freeze" say the
the bulk of mankind here, from experience.) In this

grey belt morning landscape
everything's at first a
dead tangle of stale images, eg
a bit of shaving cream in
the conduit a collar
or, moving upon a DO NOT ...