To be companion with joy
And Sorrow as a twin of sisters,
And still smile with joy and weep
With Sorrow, never betraying one
Unto the other, is a tedious
But beloved task'
by T. S. EliotAPENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to maculate giraffe.
The circles of the stormy moon