Lew Welch "This Book Is For Magda"

by ________

What strange pleasures do they get who’d

Wipe whole worlds out,

ANYTHING

To end our lives, our

wild idleness?

But we have charms against their rage –

must go on saying “Look,

if no one tried to live this way,

All the work of the world would be in vain.”

And now and then a son, a daughter hears it.

Now and then a son, a daughter

gets away