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Love, if you love me,
lie next to me.
Be for me, like rain,
the getting out

of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-
lust of intentional indifference.

Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. The Rain (l. 17–22). . .

The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.

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