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Poem for Vows Lyrics by Gabriel Kahane

2024

Hello beautiful talented
Dark semi-optimists of June
From far off I send my hopes
Brooklyn is sunny, and the ghost
Of Whitman who loved everyone
Is there to see you say what
Can never be said, something like
Partly I promise my whole life
To try to figure out what it means
To stand facing you under a tree
And partly no matter how angry
I get I will always remember
We met before we were born
It was in a village, someone
Had just cast a spell, it was
In the park, snow everywhere
We were slipping and laughing
At last we knew the green secret
We were sea turtles swimming
A long time together without
Needing to breathe, we were
Two hungry owls silently
Hunting night, our terrible claws
I don’t want to sound like I know
I’m just one who worries all night
About people in a lab watching
A storm in a glass terrarium
Perform lethal ubiquity
Tiny black clouds make the final
Ideogram above miniature lands
Exactly resembling ours, what is
Happening happens again
They cannot stop it, they take off
Their white coats, go outside
Look up and wonder, only we
Who promise everything despite
Everything can tell them
The solution, only we know
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Gabriel Kahane

Gabriel Kahane

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