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Love is like water or the air / my townspeople; / it cleanses, and dissipates evil gases.
It is like poetry too / and for the same reasons.
Love is so precious / my townspeople / that if I were you I would / have it under lock and key -- / like the air or the Atlantic or / like poetry!