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LISTENING by DAVID IGNATOW

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First Line: YOU WEPT IN YOUR MOTHER'S ARMS
Last Line: TO THE POUNDING OF THE FEET, THE PULSING VOICES.
Subject(s): LOVE; DANCING & DANCERS; LIFE;
It's to hear the children under my window
perform the ritual dance of sex to know
I am asking for an end to danger and death,
for the dance of shouts and gestures
is toward life, which is for danger and death:
a rush toward an ecstasy for destruction,
and I am with them: my heart beats
to the pounding of the feet, the pulsing voices.



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