Lux Lotus 'Round Midnight Poetry Hour

APHORISMS
BY ANTONIO PORCHIA
TRANSLATED BY W.S. MERWIN

"Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

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When one does not love the impossible, one does not love anything.

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Every time I wake I understand how easy it is to be nothing.

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Now you do not know what to do, not even when you go back to being a child. And it is sad to see a child who does not know what to do.

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Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long."

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IMAGE: PURPLE MAGAZINE #12