The Past Cannot Be Returned
The umbilical cord
cannot be refastened
and life flow through it
again.
Our tears never totally
dry.
Our first kiss is now a ghost,
haunting our mouths as they
fade toward
oblivion.
Tokyo
June 19, 1976
with a few words
added in Montana
July 12, 1976
źródło: June 30th, June 30th
o źródle i prawach
tekst z archiwum "american dust" (brautiganarchives.xyz); z tomu "June 30th, June 30th" (Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1978)
11.06.2026