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Stoic (featuring Will Oldham)

from Last Poems by Bob Arellano

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words by D.H. Lawrence

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Groan then, groan.
For the sun is dead, and all that is in heaven
is the pyre of blazing gas.

And the moon that went
so queenly, shaking her glistening beams
is dead too, a dead orb wheeled once a month round the park.

And the five others, the travellers
they are all dead!
In the hearse of night you see their tarnished coffins
travelling, travelling still, still travelling
to the end, for they are not yet buried.

Groan then, groan!
Groan then, for even the maiden earth
is dead, we run wheels across her corpse.

Oh groan
groan with mighty groans!

But for all that, and all that
"in the centre of your being, groan not."
In the centre of your being, groan not, do not groan.
For perhaps the greatest of all illusions
is this illusion of the death of the undying.

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from Last Poems, released February 5, 2021

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