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any man is wonderful | |
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and a formula | |
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a bit of tobacco and gladness | |
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plus little derricks of gesture | |
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any skyscraper |
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bulges in the looseness of morning | |
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but in twilight becomes | |
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unutterably crisp | |
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a thing, | |
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which tightens |
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caught | |
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in the hoisting light | |
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any woman is smooth and ridiculous | |
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a polite uproar of knuckling silent planes | |
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a nudging bulb silkenly brutal |
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a devout flexion |
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