In the pleasure of a piano sonata
And black coffee at midnight,
I can taste the music:
Bitter, warm, alive, and rattling,
It keeps me awake, awake in the real.
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An order goes out to everything:
Things set forth on a journey.
I, too, shall be gone:
Transported, yet present
Still drinking black coffee
On the heights above sleep.
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All things return to the first thought of them.
Then all things come back to us better, yet the same.
Yet nothing shall ever be the same again.
I can scarcely remember
Who I’ve been,
Or when,
And yet whatever is, is here.