1.<\/p>\n
They bear the energy over, while<\/p>\n
all carry on underneath\u2014<\/p>\n
all the moving parts, the subtle intrigues\u2014<\/p>\n
without the lines, no heat, no force:<\/p>\n
(Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.)<\/i><\/p>\n
Where does it come from, this authority?\u00a0 What spark<\/p>\n
(\u2026who made thee? Dost thou know who\u2026)<\/i><\/p>\n
lights, and how it ignites, like magic<\/p>\n
\u2026spirit and process\u2026<\/p>\n
(What we\u2019ve got here is a failure to communicate.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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2.<\/p>\n
Of magnetism, dynamism, (witchery?):<\/p>\n
(Come live with me, and be my love)<\/i><\/p>\n
Too, mystery:<\/p>\n
mastery, my story, messy missing madnessy<\/p>\n
(heaven must be missing an angel)<\/i><\/p>\n
Cut<\/p>\n
the lines become<\/p>\n
masquerades, or they mask themselves so<\/p>\n
(You don\u2019t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows)<\/i><\/p>\n
or do you?<\/p>\n
3.<\/p>\n
There is only one path to one place,<\/p>\n
and it runs<\/p>\n
beneath these (Danger!) lines.<\/p>\n
You may read between them;<\/p>\n
you may color inside them;<\/p>\n
you may love in spite of them;<\/p>\n
but you need them, and when they won\u2019t come<\/p>\n
you are left in the dark.<\/p>\n
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***Credit?\u00a0 In order, Wallace Stevens; William Blake; Don Pearce & Frank Pierson; Christopher Marlowe; (every imaginationless bar hawk, ever, and) Freddie Perren & Keni St. Lewis; Bob Dylan\u2026<\/p>\n
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