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ProemAuthor(s): Larry GraySource: Notre Dame English Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring, 1969), p. 7Published by: The University of Notre DameStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40066469 .
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PROEM
Larry Gray
READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS SILENTLY AS I READ THEM ALOUD
I sip the air and try to find words for what is caressing my eyes. Hold my romantic pen poised and forget for a moment even today. Find me white face Mask me in motley and I will out. Careless of tomorrow Careful of any passing hand Pass by, pass by, hold your mannered words in readiness, your polite caresses and excuse my passion so impersonal. I smoke too much. I drink too much. Where is a passing hand that will caress with abandon and without embarassment? Are you smiling? Will I be anthologized as quaint? an urban romantic? naive and guilty? This is a note to listeners telling of my intent. I am waiting impatiently for a reply. 7C7C7v7f7C7wv 7www\vC7T7v ?<?7C7?7?7v7C7f
QUESTION AND ANSWER WITH PAOLO AND FRANCESCA
The old man of the forest his red hair streaming masturbates across the lawn of imagination and slinks back thru the trees but doesn't disappear.
Sartre slit the eyelids of those in hell. Allow me partial blindness for I would know everything. Paolo and Francesca, be my patron devils and show me the way out of memory. "Abandon hope and hug desperately to passion. ff
Have you found a corner of contentment in eternal torment? f!We have found each other- f inite and ultimately selfish.11 ******* ******* ********
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