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标题：Antibodies - Poem
作者：William M. Ramsey
期刊名称：Commonweal
印刷版ISSN：0010-3330
出版年度：2001
卷号：July 13, 2001
出版社：Commonweal Foundation

Antibodies - Poem

William M. Ramsey

   In arthritic persons
   they turn on one,
   eroding joints.
   In asthmatics
   they close airways
   that suck in life.
   Much as a sock
   turned inside out
   would be an antisock,
   in each body
   lurk antibodies,
   antitheses to flesh,
   antagonists to presence,
   the principle of unbody.
   We require them
   as earth needs poles,
   one valence conceived
   in the other.
   Against darkness
   broke forth the light.
   From vast despair
   leaks out faith.