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(once like a spark)
if strangers meet
life begins—
not poor not rich
(only aware)
kind neither
nor cruel
(only complete)
i not not you
not possible;
only truthful
—truthfully,once
if strangers(who
deep our most are
selves)touch:
forever
(and so to dark)
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1 x 1 [One Times One] (1944) |
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