STEVEN CRAMER
Throw Yourself Like Seed
after Miguel de
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Defea t ? Shake it o ff, take yo urself back. Lyin g
in bed, sheet ove r yo ur eyes, yo u' ll mi ss the whee l
th at grazes yo ur hee l as it pa sses by, turning–
whoeve r wa nts
to
li ve has some life left.
Right now, you' re just feeding yo urself
with a mo rra l pa in th at spin s its web in side you;
life eq ua ls wo rk , and wo rk is the single
lasting th ing; get sta rred; turn back
to
th e wo rk.
Throw yo urse lf like seed as yo u wa lk yo ur fi eld,
don't turn thi s way o r tha t; th at's turning towa rd dea th ;
don't let what happened slow you. Wh at's a li ve
in the furr ow, let it li ve; what's in side yo u, let di e.
No body's life drifts by like a landsca pe with cloud s;
the day you co ll ec t yo urself is the day you wo rk .
COM INC I N
PARTISAN REVIEW:
• Bruce Bawer
on Tolerating Intolerance
• John Patrick Diggins
on th e Enlightenment
· Lawrence Langer
on Holocaust Memoirs
• Cushing Strout
on Fiction ali zing Hi sto ry
• Vladimir Tismaneanu
on Lenin 's Century
• Robert Wistrich
on Austrian Legac ies
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