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After great pain, a formal feeling comes · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: After great pain, a formal feeling comes. After great pain,
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Speaker 1: a formal feeling comes. The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs.
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Speaker 1: The stiff heart questions, was it he that bore? And
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Speaker 1: yesterday or centuries before? The feet, mechanical, go round, of
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Speaker 1: ground or air or aught, a wooden way, regardless grown,
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Speaker 1: a court's contentment like a stone. This is the hour
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Speaker 1: of lead, remembered, if outlived, as freezing persons recollect the snow.
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Speaker 1: First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.