加拿大 玛格丽特·阿特伍德 Margaret Atwood  加拿大   (1939~?)
A Sad Child
A Visit
Backdropp Addresses Cowboy
Bored
Flying Inside Your Own Body
Habitation
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
In the Secular Night
Is/Not
More and More
Morning in the Burned House
Night Poem
Postcards
Provisions
Sekhmet, the Lion-headed Goddess of War
Siren Song
Spelling
The City Planners
The Landlady
The Moment
The Rest
The Shadow Voice
This is a Photograph of Me
Variation On The Word Sleep
Multiple poems at a time
outland poetry

Is/Not

   Margaret Atwood

Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise


sex is not dentistry
the slick filling of aches and cavities


you are not my doctor
you are not my cure,


nobody has that
power, you are merely a fellow/traveller


Give up this medical concern,
buttoned, attentive,


permit yourself anger
and permit me mine


which needs neither
your approval nor your suprise


which does not need to be made legal
which is not against a disease


but agaist you,
which does not need to be understood


or washed or cauterized,
which needs instead


to be said and said.
Permit me the present tense.   

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