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/ _A young woman who has been renounced by her lover, because of her / lack of culture, answers his derision._
/ Your cloistered naughtiness / Makes me as boisterous / As a savage attending / A minstrel-show of regrets. / The pampered carefulness / With which you distil a series / Of standardized perfumes from life / Takes its promenade / Between the realms of sanity and madness. / You are too precise to be quite sane / And too evasive to be insane, / And all that you have left me / Is a mood of windy sadness -- / Emotions becoming verbose / In a last thin effort / To persuade themselves that they loved / A jewel that slipped from your fingers.
/ Your mind is a limpid warehouse / Filled with other mens' creations, / And you pilfer a bit from each, / Disguising the scheme of your culture. / I would rather be a naked fool / Than a full-gowned erudite / Imitation of other mens' hands. / I shall marry a desperado / And give him strength with which to paint / Black angels and muscular contortions / On panels of taffeta.