Rousseau, Henri. The Sleeping Gypsy. 1897. Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Please rest
all the choices you had
and all the songs to sing.
Please rest
and we will wait
and ensure that you won't go without.
Sand creeping by,
that geographical nicety
that can only confuse
One attempt alone at
a permanence
and a hovering voice,
embodied only
as if all the identity
could be explained
as if all of the history
weren't alive.
Now rest.
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