THE GREAT NEED

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    THE GREAT NEED
    Water is not watery enough
    To assuage this thrilling thirst
    Nor spirits spirituous enough
    To lighten this heavy heart
    But when you slobber my lips enough
    This thirst will make its exit in haste

    What liquor do I crave
    To earn a name worse than 'sot'?
    What wine will make me a drunkard worse than Lot
    Only your heart; when it sets to requite
    My love, fuddling me--but mainly in love.

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    mdpoetgirl commented on THE GREAT NEED

    10-01-2009

    Wow, you have a way with words. I had to look a couple of them up for clarity... didn't know "spirituous" was a real word ;-) I thought you meant something else. Anyway, this was well thought out and very well written.
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    jaggededge commented on THE GREAT NEED

    05-01-2009

    this was a well written art you drew for me basically
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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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