Deed
Death was happening
before love and will do so
after love, but love
outdistances death
like a parcel of land
(living, full of poison
berries and mating)
outdistances ownership:
even after a person’s death
you can be sure
of her love and be sure
of your love for her.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)