Don’t look. Don’t read that book.
It is always better not to look.
The genius sees little, but what he sees
Invades his poetry with ease.
There is no exception; the world is full
Of horrible protesters protesting the horrible.
If you see too much
You will lose genius and its soft touch.
Superior knowledge will equal anxiety
And too many things inhibiting poetry.
The genius lets attractive illusion do
What sad knowledge is doing, too—
But sad knowledge
Thinks, and pays, and goes to college,
And is forced, in every instance, to acknowledge
The parts separated from the whole,
The parts which strive, in difficulty, for the soul of knowledge,
Studied and learned as parts in college,
Heaping up misunderstandings of the soul.
Being is majority, of which majority is the whole
Majority which, as the majority of the whole,
Represents the being of whatever lives as that
Whole thing which the parts are separated from,
And all the parts, to be real, become
Separated, the flaking off of sad parts
From the whole, and these hearts
Protest endlessly in pain
Like rain falling down on rain.
The protest is in vain.
I found my will
By saying nothing and standing still.
These parts, in cold, lonely, orbit
Would join the mass—but the movement runs them out of it.
The majority is all there is.
But wait. There is a quiz.
You have to figure out what the majority is.
There is only one sunshine in your eye.
The universe has no choice but to be one.
Amazed and sad, you see that I,
Happy poet, who wrote this one thing, am already done.