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Old men who have studied / every leg show / in the city / Old men cut from touch / by the perfumed music -- / polished or fleeced skulls / that stand before / the whole theater / in silent attitudes / of attention, -- / old men who have taken precedence / over young men / and even over dark-faced / husbands whose minds / are a street with arc-lights.
Solitary old men for whom / we find no excuses -- / I bow my head in shame / for those who malign you.
Old men / the peaceful beer of impotence / be yours!