Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Do Want

I have desires: who, indeed, does not?
Who is so dead there's nothing that they want?
I want, of course, those things I haven't got,
(For which I need not be weak, poor, or gaunt
But simply incomplete), but I want, too,
Things I can have, have had, may have right now,
And still desire: like, for instance, you.
I do not merely want you to allow
Me things I do not have; I wish, as well,
To have more of what I possess already,
Or keep possessing it. You ring a bell
And I will salivate: I find you heady,
Intoxicating even, and want more
Although I did not lack for you before.

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