Oblivious Vapor



I am: yet what I am none cares or knows:
    My friends forsake me like a memory lost,
I am the self-consumer of my woes--
    They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love's frenzied stifled throes--
And yet I am, and live--like vapors tossed

-John Clare (1793-1864), I am,
written while he was confined in the General Lunatic
Asylum in Northampton, where he spent about the last
third of his life.





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