selflessness occurs
in the animal kingdom
— yet for a man, such
raw simplicity never
works out quite so straightforward
As when I once saw a mother duck launch herself directly into the face of a dog. Last night I dreamed I was trying to protect Liz from the shock wave and radiation of a nuclear bomb. Hopeless futile gesture. Not unlike the mother duck’s in fact. And of course, awake, I have Freud to contend with, who might argue that the dream expresses a death wish against Liz and not simply a desire to save her.
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