a poem

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    From
    Larkinesque

    by Michael Ryan

    So maybe the looks we’re dealt are best.
    It’s only common sense that happiness
    depends on some bearable deprivation
    or defect, and who knows what conflicts

    great beauty could have caused,
    what cruelties one might have suffered
    from those now friends, what unmanageable
    possibilities smiling at every small turn?

    So if I get up to draw a tumbler
    of ordinary tap water and think what if this were
    nectar dripping from delicious burning fingers,
    will all I’ve missed knock me senseless?

    No. Of course not. It won’t.