Again the
day begins, only
no one wants its sanity
or its blinding clarity. Daylight is
not what we came all this way for. A
pinch of salt, a drop of schnapps in our cup
of tears, the ticket to the life to come, a short life of
long nights & absent dawns & a little mercy in the tea.
by Philip Levine
For more information about poet, Philip Levine, see:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/philip-Levine
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