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I Love You

I love you I can say nothing else
the music has entranced me I
love you the music knows better than I
do how much I love you it is as
clear as dawn's early light I love
you and whether or not you love me
can't matter you are dead but I
still love you and nobody else
but you you are stuck with my dumb
adoration just the way this CD must
play the same song again and again
I love you dude I love you

Tom Disch (1940-2008)

Date: 2010-04-21 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
I figured it the same way, but I don't know for sure and was also thrown off by my inability to ascertain when Naylor died. When I first read the poem the day he posted it, I read it as a primal expression of drunken sentiment, but now I'm struck by the artistry of it -- the way that "it is as clear as dawn's early light" suggests the poet has been up all night thinking about his lost love. So now I suspect it was more consciously crafted than I originally assumed. It's still a lot rawer emotionally than the other poetry of Disch's I've read.

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