A man talks with a woman. He makes an idle comment about the moon. She thinks he is not propelling their conversation forward to new topics. He says we use music to describe the moon and night and our own feelings of emptiness. He tells the woman she is indifferent and not given to moral absolutes. He suggests she takes things too lightly.
This poem finds the two participants.....
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