Lovers, sweetly sleeping between the sheets,
Be warm, open; curled up like well-loved books
But separate as strangers on shadowed streets.
Exchange for honest glances reverent looks,
Remember what desire love completes:
The search for knowledge, facts outside of books.
Be proud, precise! Recite: eyes, lips, heart, hand,
Hands, hearts! Eyes, minds, mouths! Meet. And understand.
Learners, discreetly sleeping between the stacks,
Be calm, reflective; like windows behind blinds,
Which, through those small smudges, scratches & cracks,
Show us the world. Call: Seek, y’all! All shall find.
Remember why we become scheisters, quacks,
Spooks, quirks? To learn the limits of our minds,
To know the shapes of others in the night
To see our sleep eclipsed by a lifelong light.
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