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Reverie on How Things Taste

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The sweet

Should have the bitter

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I know you are a villain, Iago

Now

Too late

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The bitter

Should have sweet

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It is a way to live

To know the world

As is

And a little

How it should be

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There is a flower

Or an herb,

I think,

Or both

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If so,

A wise bloom

And spice

Inviting us

To savor

How things are

And a little

How they should be

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The plants

That have blossoms

And have thorns

They are wise

And sad

They speak

They sing

To peril

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Had Christ had a few flowers

On the crown

Pressed on his head

The beauty

Would not have changed

The agony

And we might wonder

Were a parody

Of beauty

Pressed on his head

Not only

Majesty

A jeering of

An earthly diadem

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We need both

Because the world

Is both

And we should navigate

Understanding

That the bitter and the sweet

Are out there

And often

Come together

As the savor

Of the world

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That we cannot pull apart

Not here

Not now

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Bittersweet in Winter

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