Good God
Instead of casting them out of paradise,
Instead of making them labor in pain and sweat,
Instead of instilling tristesse after coitus,
Instead of giving them fire to burn their house down
And light their way into the outer world,
He could have split them, each with a memory of the other,
And put them each into a separate world.
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interesting . . . but it just doesn't *seem* like Mark . . . his so-solid marriage, etc . . . his upstandingness . . . I can't imagine his wanting a separate world from (forgot her name) . . . but maybe the person we are is not a part of some of our poems . . .
Isn't that exactly the point--that they were spared the most cruel punishment, separation?
okay . . . I can read it that way now . . . i guess i was turning could into should
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