“I learned a world from each / one whom I loved”

“What is obscenity? And to whom?”

“I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?”

“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”

“I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?What price bananas? Are you my Angel?”

“I never dreamed the sea so deep,The earth so dark; so long my sleep,I have become another child.I wake to see the world go wild.”

“Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!”