"There is an awful yes in every constitution"
Patchen, Dickinson, Melnick, Fountain
Kenneth Patchen:
Emily Dickinson:
I do not care - / why should I care / And yet I fear/ I’m caring / To rock a [crying] fretting / truth to sleep [wailing]- / Is [no] [frail poor] short security / The terror it will
wake / persistent as perdition / Is harder than to face / the frank adversity - / There is an awful yes in every constitution
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