Pansies (Lawrence)/Fire

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FIRE
Fire is dearer to us than love or food,hot, hurrying, yet it burns if you touch it.
What we ought to dois not to add our love together, or our good-will, or any of that,for we're sure to bring in a lot of lies,but our fire, our elemental fireso that it rushes up in a huge blaze like a phallus into hollow spaceand fecundates the zenith and the nadirand sends off millions of sparks of new atomsand singes us, and burns the house down.

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