English - Poet | September 27, 1906 - April 15, 1984
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
William Empson
WaitingEnd
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
FailureEffortBloodStreamPoison
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
SomeoneThingsSeemsOffKnowsTill
You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.
YouWantWholeThing
The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
HeartFlyYouStandingCannot
Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
MenLawShortLongStakesMakes
My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
HeartYouPoisonDraught
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