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You said you loved my company Listing my humor as the reason why I have not heard much of you lately But those who laugh do not quickly die. I was thinking about you today When I told a friend a thing profound: "Jokes are the salt of our reality" say The more I laugh the more my pains abound. I hide so much, and you are not here To listen, seismic quakings from below The subterranean ego of my fear. Ancient depths from Eve's quest to know Remnant shards of ancestral guilt Against the spine of life becoming From seed's spring to orchard wilt And lost joys for golden fleece discerning. Give me youth again and the clean swept dirt That frames the yard, the long log full With friends' and cousins' eyes on our flirt O the shams our innocence could pull Desire meaningless like all our stories then It is not so now when love's lessons write Belated meanings on the heart of men Not so while I think of you tonight What bright days were those when we glee At subtle tellings of the truth, what joy Embarked in woven dreams desires set free The boy excited that the girl is coy And all the lands pastoral, fecund with sweat From our brows, was a bright memorial To things old men should forget, O forget The jokes were truth that fear made trivial.