Should I stop breathing
For birdsong and bird flight
And the cries of crickets weaving
Through the dead of night?

Should I silence my heart
All the better to hear
Words, falling with a lover's art
To my unsensitive ear?

It seems that I should die
And silence all the clamor
That clouds both ear and eye
From life's unending glamour.
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Damn my twitchiness. The slightest sound and I go all paranoid and freeze- s'damn annoying, it is.