it ain’t real to go

, it ain’t real to go and it ain’t real to say so. It ain’t real to know it, if it ain’t real, and it ain’t. It ain’t real, to call you on the phone; it ain’t real to leave you all alone, with nothing much to say, except the cloudless sky is raining, except it’s hard for me to say I love you, except I do.

18 December 1973