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WHATEVER ELSE

 Ken Norris

Whatever else, don't love me perfectly.
When your hands become marble everything ends;
all life goes out of me, you drain me of all heat
when you have become stone.
I look, in love, for the flaw
that makes the thing human. Roll me up
in a Persian rug, my heart will find itself pressed
against the intentionally misplaced stitch.

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