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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=429684" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Boiling Water</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A serious moment for the water is <br>when it boils<br>And though one usually regards it<br>merely as a convenience<br>To have the boiling water<br>available for bath or table<br>Occasionally there is someone<br>around who understands<br>The importance of this moment<br>for the water—maybe a saint,<br>Maybe a poet, maybe a crazy <br>man, or just someone<br>temporarily disturbed<br>With his mind 'floating'in a<br>sense, away from his deepest<br>Personal concerns to more<br>'unreal' things...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A serious moment for the island <br>is when its trees<br>Begin to give it shade, and<br>another is when the ocean<br>washes<br>Big heavy things against its side.<br>One walks around and looks at<br>the island<br>But not really at it, at what is on<br>it, and one thinks,<br>It must be serious, even, to be this<br>island, at all, here.<br>Since it is lying here exposed to <br>the whole sea. All its<br>Moments might be serious. It is<br>serious, in such windy weather,<br>to be a sail<br>Or an open window, or a feather<br>flying in the street...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seriousness, how often I have<br>thought of seriousness<br>And how little I have understood<br>it, except this: serious is urgent<br>And it has to do with change. You<br>say to the water,<br>It's not necessary to boil now,<br>and you turn it off. It stops<br>Fidgeting. And starts to cool. You<br>put your hand in it<br>And say, The water isn't serious<br>any more. It has the potential,<br>However—that urgency to give<br>off bubbles, to<br>Change itself to steam. And the<br>wind,<br>When it becomes part of a<br>hurricane, blowing up the <br>beach<br>And the sand dunes can't keep it <br>away.<br>Fainting is one sign of <br>seriousness, crying is another.<br>Shuddering all over is another<br>one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A serious moment for the<br>telephone is when it rings.<br>And a person answers, it is<br>Angelica, or is it you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A serious moment for the fly is<br>when its wings<br>Are moving, and a serious<br>moment for the duck<br>Is when it swims, when it first<br>touches water, then spreads<br>Its smile upon the water...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A serious moment for the match <br>is when it burst into flame...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Serious for me that I met you, and<br>serious for you<br>That you met me, and that we do<br>not know<br>If we will ever be close to anyone<br>again. Serious the recognition<br>of the probability<br>That we will, although time<br>stretches terribly in<br>between...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kenneth+Koch">Kenneth Koch</a><div class=q>
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And though one usually regards it
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To have the boiling water
available for bath or table
Occasionally there is someone
around who understands
The importance of this moment
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