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It is on a day like this one,

a little later a little earlier

that you discover without surprise

that something is wrong

that you don’t know how to live

and you will never know

“Know by the words here mingled
What love hath made my heart his stead,
Glowing like flame beneath thin jade.”

Ezra Pound | “Canzon: The Spear”