lower the bridge and keep it down
let rage and its dark gestures in
let in good and evil
and that which mediates
between them
which is to say
the truth this pendulum
let fire in with or without rain
and women with or without a past
let work in and above all leisure
that right to dream
that rainbow
lower the bridge and keep it down
let rage and its dark gestures in
let in good and evil
and that which mediates
between them
which is to say
the truth this pendulum
let fire in with or without rain
and women with or without a past
let work in and above all leisure
that right to dream
that rainbow
lower the bridge and keep it down
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Poem Against Drawbridges
Mario Beneditti