Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIKE A LIE, by DAVID IGNATOW



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First Line: In myself I speak the language of love
Last Line: Sound like a lie
Subject(s): Lies


Watching from across the table your shoulders
hunched to the food, your fork sliding
in and out, nothing could be more serious,
your face tense, removed, I think,
my glass idle in my palm, this is how,
by first strengthening ourselves,
we prepare a paradise.





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