Another Vitale poem:
SUMS
One plus one, we say. And think:
one apple plus one apple,
one glass plus one glass.
Always the same things.
What a change it will be when
one plus one is a puritan
plus a gamelan,
a jasmine plus an Arab,
a nun plus a cliff,
a song plus a mask.
a garrison plus a damsel (again)
one person's hope
plus another's dream.
The epigraph is "horse and horseman are now two animals" JD García Bacca.
The reference to garrisons and damsels is to Pablo Neruda's "Arte poético": Entre sueño y espacio, / entre guarniciones y doncellas."
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