Speaking of marvels, I am alive
together with you, when I might have been
alive with anyone under the sun,
when I might have been Abelard's woman
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indeed, it's a marvel that we are still alive and ticking against all the odds stacked against and all those terrible things waiting to happen...
Such a fine example of all the what if's in the world! Love it.
Wonderful, mind-expanding, heart-touching poem - but did they have pop in the Renaissance, David?
together with marvels and follies and longings and lies and wishes and error and humor and mercy and journeys and voices and faces and colors and summers and mornings and knowledge and tears and chance. very fine use of words and expressions. tony