above the city tonight
thinks it’s the only one
who doesn’t go far enough
like Samuel Beckett
who stood with one foot
in the Old Testament the Torah
and the other in warmed-over
Protestantism ‘harshing
his mellow’ as the smokers
put it to us what’s wrong
with pleasure is that we take it
at others’ expense and think
we can get into heaven without
ever getting stoned ourselves
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