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Small Elena / Of shrunken limbs / And ample sex / Who / Having filched / The atrophied / Woman-smile of your mother / Scatter it / On the eating unseen / Tuberculous / Inaudible hands / On the counter-pane / It might have been / Impossible / Fingers should be so long / Being so tiny / But Nature / Needing no microscope / In her laboratory / Found it just as easy / Marshalling imperceptible / Hosts / To bone of your arm / Among overlapping of lint / Attaining a dignity / Unworthy of your years / Two and a half!
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