ADVICE GIVEN NOVEMBER 8, 1674
A useful perquisite of being an
angel
Is the ability to make bodies when you need
To clothe your inchoate potentiality.
Most of the time you make them from air
Condensed and colored according to taste
But almost anything will do. Fire, say,
Or the sound of footsteps in January.
One I knew generally chose milk products
Another preferred abstractions and the unreal
Carrying out God's will clad in the sad echo of light
From unborn stars. Respect a scrap-iron angel;
Run from one made of copperas and oak-gall.
Is the ability to make bodies when you need
To clothe your inchoate potentiality.
Most of the time you make them from air
Condensed and colored according to taste
But almost anything will do. Fire, say,
Or the sound of footsteps in January.
One I knew generally chose milk products
Another preferred abstractions and the unreal
Carrying out God's will clad in the sad echo of light
From unborn stars. Respect a scrap-iron angel;
Run from one made of copperas and oak-gall.
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