“I Am in Danger - Sir - ”
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“I Am in Danger - Sir - ” Lyrics
"I Am in Danger - Sir - "
"Half-cracked" to Higginson, living,
afterward famous in garbled versions,
your hoard of dazzling scraps a battlefield,
now your old snood
mothballed at Harvard
and you in your variorum monument
equivocal to the end -
who are you?
Gardening the day-lily,
wiping the wine-glass stems,
your thought pulsed on behind
a forehead battered paper-thin,
you, woman, masculine
in single-mindedness,
for whom the word was more
than a symptom --
a condition of being.
Till the air buzzing with spoiled language
sang in your ears
of Perjury
"Half-cracked" to Higginson, living,
afterward famous in garbled versions,
your hoard of dazzling scraps a battlefield,
now your old snood
mothballed at Harvard
and you in your variorum monument
equivocal to the end -
who are you?
Gardening the day-lily,
wiping the wine-glass stems,
your thought pulsed on behind
a forehead battered paper-thin,
you, woman, masculine
in single-mindedness,
for whom the word was more
than a symptom --
a condition of being.
Till the air buzzing with spoiled language
sang in your ears
of Perjury
and in your half-cracked way you chose
silence for entertainment,
chose to have it out at last
on your own premises.
silence for entertainment,
chose to have it out at last
on your own premises.
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