No one knows when men became bored with
Places too large for them:
The clocks all ran down at different times,
The doors will not swing to
Not even the ghosts would stay
And it's hard to see how anyone
Had much of a lay on that bed
Or why a chair faces somewhere mindlessly
And if they knew their
Pictures lied as much as our TV
And if they seemed as beautiful for being lies
Not so distant from their givens
As their fairy-castles are from ours.
(Residenz, Munich)
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