"Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day."

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Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.230, New Directions Publishing

Kenneth Rexroth

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