#poetry
Instructions
Take these for the pain\ twice daily after eating\ Take these for a headache\ and these for your tired legs\ Take these for a pain in the neck\ in the mornings Take these if you miss your train\ And you can't see the funny side\ Take these if you suffer Take these for loss\ or a twinge in the heart\ Take them in the evening\ Stand by a window you can't see out of\ Take with water and look into the dark\ For as long as you can bear Take these for courage\ Take a partner by the arm\ Take...
William Carlos Williams on love and cruelty
I've been reading The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson and there's tons of great extracts and references. One that caught me in particular was this excerpt from The Ivy Crown by William Carlos Williams, which (I think) disputes the rosy typical notions about love but reaffirms it as a wilder, more brutal thing: It's a nice disputation of the oft-quoted 1 Corinthians 13:4-7: