One friend tells me everything's political, another says nothing is, we just make it political. By "we", he means human beings, I assume-- what's political to a fox curled in sleep, or a pond, or a sycamore in winter with no leaves left to stop the snow falling through it? I have loved you for less time than I have loved some others, but none more deeply than you; no one more absolutely. Which, as if inevitably, amounts to a hierarchy of sorts, doesn't it? Value, then the power that comes with it--soon enough, the distribution of power, who gets to do the distributing... But if we make of tenderness a countervailing force, the two of us-- If we can make, from tenderness, a revolution--

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