Day most miserable!
When perfect perseverance
Only slowed its happy close.
Too rich a sip of gifts meant for other people!
It makes me want to put aside my life
In the service of those unfortunates
Who totter in that gap
Between slipping through an unseen crack
And sucking what's intact out of my marrow.
It's impossible to tell,
As it's impossible to know
How I am exactly them
Despite my civilian clothes.
