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I am the centre / Of a circle of pain / Exceeding its boundaries in every direction / The business of the bland sun / Has no affair with me / In my congested cosmos of agony / From which there is no escape / On infinitely prolonged nerve-vibrations / Or in contraction / To the pin-point nucleus of being / Locate an irritation / without / It is / within / Within / It is without.
The sensitized area / Is identical / with the extensity / Of intension / I am the false quantity / In the harmony of physiological potentiality / To which / Gaining self-control / I should be consonant / In time / Pain is no stronger than the resisting force / Pain calls up in me / The struggle is equal / The open window is full of a voice / A fashionable portrait-painter / Running up-stairs to a woman's apartment / Sings / "All the girls are tid'ly did'ly / All the girls are nice / Whether they wear their hair in curls / Or -- "