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| September 01, 2002 | Kirsch, Adam | COPYRIGHT 2002 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
Indecision 
 
   What more on a summer afternoon 
   Could I require? 
   Light without heat, my work-week done, 
   A free desire, 
 
   And the world from my balcony composed 
   Like a Renaissance 
   Picture, the elements disposed 
   With significance 
 
   Too obvious to miss: the trees 
   Are Nature's beauty; 
   My notebook the imperious 
   Summons to Duty. 
 
   Neither could Lust's abrupt demands 
   Have been omitted: 
   A sunbathing girl on the next roof stands, 
   My gaze permitted 
 
   As though she did not notice it; and last 
   The stereo 
   Is playing Mozart's movements, fast 
   Then aching-slow, 
 
   A sign for the ...

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