A Luncheon Date
Woman Man
Then we see Oh, I quite agree.
one must have tolerance There is a stance of folly
and intolerance. and lack of folly;
This is so. therefore, I go
Always, late and soon, out this very afternoon
love and lust upon trust,
make comments upon moments
on common and heretical free of moral and ethical
orthodoxies. dependencies.
We are free to come Freedom,
into both joy and regret, do not ever forget,
to be struck dumb is freedom.
by false report. One can protect
We sing to the sweet choirs the rose by barbed wires,
of our own horns or its own thorns,
and believe in and even
a naturalness of contracts, by well-kept agreements
acted compacted
out. But usually mutually.
love and the will do close Yes, the commonest rose
on a particular cause. has its own laws.
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