Saturday, February 15, 2020

Songs to Joannes XIII / Mina Loy

from Songs to Joannes

XIII

Come to me   There is something
I have got to tell you   and I can't tell
Something taking shape
Something has a new name
A new dimension
A new use
A new illusion

It is ambient              And it is in your eyes
Something shiny       Something only for you
                                      Something that I must not see

It is in my ears           Something very resonant
Something that you must not hear
                                      Something only for me

Let us be very jealous
Very suspicious
Very conservative
Very cruel
Or we might not make an end of the jostling aspirations
Disorb inviolate egos

Where two or three are welded together
They shall become god
— — — — — — —
Oh that's right
Keep away from me   Please give me a push
Don't let me understand you   Don't realize me
Or we might tumble together
Depersonalized
Identical
Into the terrific Nirvana
Me you — you — me

~~ 
Mina Loy (1882-1966)
from Others, April 1917

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]

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