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That social fellow

2025 April 4th2023 July 2nd

Where once I loved my flesh,
That social fellow,
Now I want security of bone
And cherish the silence of my skeleton…

—Thomas McGrath, from “The Progress of the Soul,” Figures of the Double World, 1955

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1950s, age & aging, body, collected, poems, quoted, silence, thomas mcgrath

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