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• Parentheses
• Lloyd Jacobs

I was impatient in the parking lotof the Pleasant Ridge Elementary Schoolleafing in a stained coverless kickedto the floor copy of E. E. Cummings

when it was vouchsafed to me that joyis found only in the parentheses betweendays and weeks and months and years

that continuity is a fiction, force fit tothe mold of biography, to impose orderon a jettisoned jumbled tumbled heap.

Beyond the windshield a robin beakedstalks and down to build a snug nestin which to love, plunging insouciantlyinto green stolen from wind and snow. [End Page 112]

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• 括弧
• 劳埃德·雅各布斯（Lloyd Jacobs）

我在普莱森特里奇小学的停车场不耐烦，四处漂荡在EE Cummings的地板上，被弄脏的无盖脚踢着

当我得到担保时，只有在几天，几周，几个月和几年之间的括号中才能找到快乐

连续性是一种虚构的小说，是与传记模范相适应的力量，它是在一个被抛弃的混乱翻滚的书堆上施加命令。

在挡风玻璃上，知更鸟喙茎秆垂下，筑起一个舒适的巢穴，在其中筑巢，爱不释手，陷入风雪无果的绿色之中。[结束第112页]

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