"For there must be kindness somewhere else in the world, maybe even out of it, though I’m not..."

“For there must be
kindness somewhere else in the world,
maybe even out of it, though I’m not crazy
about the emptiness of outer space. I have to live
here, with finite life and inner space and with
the horrible desire to love everything and be disappointed.”

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Ron Padgett’s Collected Poems

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