High Windows

Question 1

First Two Verses?

Answer 1

When I see a couple of kids
And guess he’s fucking her and she’s

Question 2

Taking pills…

Answer 2

Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise

Question 3

bonds

Everyone old…

Answer 3

Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives—
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side

Question 4

Like an outdated…

Answer 4

Like an outdated combine harvester,
And everyone young going down the long slide

Question 5

forty

To happiness…

Answer 5

To happiness, endlessly. I wonder if
Anyone looked at me, forty years back,

Question 6

And thought…

Answer 6

And thought, That’ll be the life;
No God any more, or sweating in the dark

Question 7

About hell…

Answer 7

About hell and that, or having to hide
What you think of the priest. He

Question 8

And his lot…

Answer 8

And his lot will all go down the long slide
Like free bloody birds. And immediately

Question 9

Rather than words…

Answer 9

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,

Question 10

And beyond…

Answer 10

And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.