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/ A curious courtship in your brain / Regulates the movements of your limbs. / Remorse, the fanciful, abandoned / Child of madness, discovers its lips / Upon the breast of a hovering Madonna. / How many poets present / The crushed tips of their hearts / Pieced carefully together as a wreath / Upon the two heads of this wooing? / Imagination is a wound / Upon the adventures of thoughts, / And one scar left behind / Is known as reality. / Will they give you robes / Threaded with orderly shimmers of repentance, / Pardoning the scar in earthly ways?