Good Advice By Ruth Stone
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Here is not exactly here
because it passed by there
two seconds ago;
where it will not come back.
Although you adjust to this--
it’s nothing, you say,
just the way it is.
How poor we are,
with all this running
through our fingers.
“Here,” says the Devil,
“Eat. It’s Paradise.”
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From “Ordinary Words” by Ruth Stone (Paris Press: 80 pp., $19.95)
