[Two Men Stand Beside]Author(s): Brit BildøenSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall, 2004), p. 133Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20151866 .

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BRIT BILD0EN

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two men stand beside

the window, they are dressed

in white, they share

a common rapture

they have also shared an

orange, once they shared

the same woman

but this was long ago

now, who knows how quickly we forget

one of them stands with

his hands on his waist, not

because he is cocky but

the other one stands with

his arms loosely hung, he

smiles, it appears

they are indifferent

but this is only a

picture we can't know more

than what we see or more than

what we imagine seeing

and they are sentenced to

share, now and forever

a common rapture

an orange

(and sometimes also in their thoughts) the same woman

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