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It was the nature of the thing:
No moon outlives its leaving night,
No sun its day. And I went on
Rich in the loss of all I sing
To the threshold of waking light,
To larksong and the live, gray dawn.
So night by night, my life has gone.

— W. D. Snodgrass

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The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
Younger and pinker every year,
Bloom gradually out of reach.

You must call up every strength you own
And you can rip off the whole facial mask.

Ah, what avails the tenure race,
Ah, what the Ph.D.,
When all departments have a place
For nincompoops like thee?

Have you subversive, out of date,
Or controversial ideas?

I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.

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