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Apr 2019
We who went into the 4 a.m. of the world
regretting nothing but an unfinished song.

We who were murdered in the darkest lanes
and at the corner of the street.

I was much further out than you thought,
starless and fatherless, a dark water -

rescue me from this ocean.
In this part of the story I am the one who

changes minute by minute.
Beauty is the sole business of poetry -

I go on loving you like water but
every night fire breaks out from windows in Üsküdar.
In a Cento, every line comes from a different poem. In this one, the sequence of poets is:
Ezra Pound;
Nazim Hikmet;

Faiz Ahmed Faiz;
T. S. Eliot;

Stevie Smith;
Sylvia Plath;

Nizar Qabbani;
Pablo Neruda;

W. B. Yeats;
Robinson Jeffers;

John Ashbery;
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek.
Evan Stephens
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Evan Stephens  44/M/DC
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