To Make A Quatrain A Quintet ... Number Forty-Nine

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To make a quintet where 

irony has no shame

 

Everything must change

 if everything

is to remain the same

 

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Footnotes

The italic quote is from

Tomasi di Lampedusa

This translation is from

New York Review of Books

(August, 2021)

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