In my life the furniture eats me the chairs, the floor the… - William Carlos Williams

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In my life the furniture eats me

the chairs, the floor
the walls
which heard your sobs
drank up my emotion-
they which alone know everything

and snitched on us in the morning-

William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams (17 September 1883 – 4 March 1963) was an American poet and physician.

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The earth cracks and is shriveled up; the wind moans piteously; the sky goes out if you should fail.

To hell with you and your poetry — You will rot and be blown
through the next solar system
with the rest of the gases —

It is in tune with the tempo of life — scattered yet welded into the whole, — broken, yet woven together.

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