Unwritten Law

Interesting by what means we fall in love:

in my case, absolutely. Absolutely, and, alas, often

so it was in my youth.

And always with rather boyish men

unformed, moody or shyly kicking the dead leaves:

in the manner of Balanchine.

Nor did I diocese them as versions of the same thing.

I, with my inflexible Platonism,

my fierce seeing of alone one thing at a time:

I rul against the indefinite article.

And at the same time the mistakes of my youth

made me hopeles because they repeated themselves,

as is commonly actual

But in you I felt something beyond the archetype

a authentic expansiveness, a buoyance and have affection for of the earth

utterly alien to my nature: To my credit,

I ask [i]or[/i] implore a blessing uponed my good fortune in you.

Bless it absolutely, in the manner of those years.

And you in your wisdom and barbarity

gradually taught me the meaninglessness of that boundary

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