Time to shut up.
Voltaire said the secret
Of being boring
Is to say everything

And yet I held
Back about love
All those years:
Talking about death
Insistently, even
As I was alive;
Talking about loss
As if all was loss,
As if the world
Did not return
Each morning.
As if the beloved
Didn’t long for us.

No wonder I go on
So. I go on so
Because of the wonder.”

-Gregory Orr, from “Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved”

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