Stanzas In Meditation: Stanza XIV

By Gertrude Stein

She need not be selfish but he may add

They like my way it is partly mine

In which case for them to foil or not please

Come which they may they may in June.

Not having all made plenty by their wish

In their array all which they plan

Should they be called covered by which

It is fortunately their stay that they may

In which and because it suits them to fan

Not only not with clover but with may it matter

That not only at a distance and with nearly

That they ran for which they will not only plan

But may be rain can be caught by the hills

Just as well as they can with what they have

And they may have it not only because of this

But because they may be here.

Or is it at all likely that they arrange what they like.

Nohody knows just why they are or are not anxious

While they sit and watch the horse which rests

Not because he is tired but because they are waiting

To say will they wait with them in their way

Only to say it relieves them that they go away

This is what they feel when they like it

Most of them do or which

It is very often their need not to be either

Just why they are after all made quickly faster

Just as they might do.

It is what they did say when they mentioned it

Or this.

It is very well to go up and down and look more

Than they could please that they see where

It is better that they are there