If when my wife is sleeping
and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a flame-white disc
in silken mists
above shining trees,--
if I in my north room
dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
waving my shirt round my head
and singing softly to myself:
"I am lonely, lonely.
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!"
If I admire my arms, my face,
my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
against the yellow drawn shades,--
Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?
-"Danse Russe", William Carlos Williams
love this poem!
Not that I identify with dancing nakedly in front of the mirror, but something about its ridiculousness strikes a chord in me. Wouldn't you like to be the happy genius of your household?
1 comment:
i wish that every day...every day
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