5.26.2021

you can well imagine how hard it is

Being in Love 

with someone who is not in love with 
you, you understand my predicament. 
Being in love with you, who are not 
in love with me, you understand my dilemma. 
Being in love with your being in love 
with me, which you are not, you understand 
 
the difficulty. Being in love with your 
being, you can well imagine how hard it is. 
Being in love with your being you, 
no matter you are not your being being in 
love with me, you can appreciate and pity 
being in love with you. Being in love 
 
with someone who is not in love, you know 
all about being in love when being in love 
is being in love with someone who is not 
in love being with you, which is 
being in love, which you know only too well, 
Love, being in love with being in love. 
 
[Marvin Bell {1937-2020}, from The American Poetry Review v. 1 no. 1 (1972)]

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