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i. Three verses / a) Welsh lazy / Oh oh there's lazy I / Am / Damn / It all I am, aye. / b) Poem to Veronica / Wherever there's honey there's bees & bears there / And I'm a bad bee & you're a good bear. / c) Shouldn't / All I know about death / Can be said in one breath: / It's tall and it's short / And it shouldn't ought.
ii. For as long as forever is / For as long as forever is / And the fast sky quakes in the web, as the fox in the wave, / With heels of birds and the plumed eyes, / Shakes in its stride the partridge fence and the sea-duck rows,
And a flame in a wheel jumps the nave, / As a dozen winds drop the dark by the one moonrise, / And the stag through a trap grave, / Forever the hunted world at a snail's gallop goes.
Over the packed nests now, the snare and the she-bear's floes,
Through the cat's mountain and the cave / By the market and a feather street near the townspires, / Narrowly time's slow riders shave.