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Sunday, February 29, 2004
  What was the point again?


I can't recall what Chris Connelly & I (that's me in the Spiderman glove) were talking about last night or why we were trying to remember this Stevens poem, but we couldn't. Dan & I squared off 'bout Stevens vs. Williams, which is kind of silly, since both are necessary.

Explanation
 
Ach, Mutter,
This old, black dress,
I have been embroidering
French flowers on it. 

Not by way of romance,
Here is nothing of the ideal,
Nein,
Nein. 

It would have been different,
Liebchen,
If I had imagined myself,
In an orange gown,
Drifting through space,
Like a figure on the church-wall.