<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351202" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>End of Summer (1966)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm tired of murdering children.<br>Once, long ago today, they wanted to live;<br>now I feel Vietnam the place<br>where rigor mortis is beginning to set-in upon me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I force silence down the throats of mutes,<br>down the throats of mating-cries of animals who know they are extinct.<br>The chameleon's death-soliloquy is your voice's pulse;<br>your scorched forehead a constellation's suicide-note.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A phonograph needle plunges through long black hair,<br>and stone drips slowly into our veins.<br>The earth has been squandered by the meek.<br>And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A baby is crying.<br>In the swaddling-pages<br>a baby.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Don't cry. No Solomori's-sword can<br>divide you from the sky.<br>You are one. Fly.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm tired, so tired.<br>I have sleep to do.<br>I have work to dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bill+Knott">Bill Knott</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351202" data-title="End of Summer (1966) de Bill Knott" data-description="I'm tired of murdering children. Once, long ago today, they wanted to live; now I feel Vietnam the place where rigor mortis is beginning to set-in upon me. I force silence down the throats of mutes, down the throats of mating-cries of animals who..."></div> </div> </div>

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