XIX.
Pain has an element of blank
Plus a little oxygen
And perhaps some bronze,—
Basically all the chemical elements.
It has no other pieces but those,
In addition to a dram of bile—
And a bit of transcendentalum—
Wait—let me think more a while.
—
The original (as written by Dickinson).
…till we were stouter…
…and potatoes soften nicely…
…but stupider, I know…
…a Jehovah Wittness ‘d like the look of…
XIV.
Some things that fly there be,—
Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:
Bats, flies, gnats, paper aeroplanes, fleas.
Some things that stay there be,—
Grief, hills, eternity:
Rocks, pennies on the ground, corpses and houses, usually.
There are, that resting, rise.
The sky:
I mean the clouds. Meant to say the clouds.
—
And she’s very selective.
