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Man of absolute physical equilibrium / You stand so straight on your legs / Every plank or clod you plant your feet on / Becomes roots for those limbs / Among the men you accrete to yourself / You are more heavy / And more light / Force being most equitably disposed / Is easiest to lift from the ground / So at the same time / Your movements / Unassailable / Savor of the airy-fairy of the ballet / The essence of a Mademoiselle Genée / Winks in the to-and-fro of your cuff-links / Your projectile nose / Has meddled in the more serious business / Of the battle-field / With the same incautious aloofness / Of intense occupation / That it snuffles the trail of the female / And the comfortable / Passing odors of love / Your genius / So much less in your brain / Than in your body / Reinforcing the hitherto negligible / Qualities / Of life / Deals so exclusively with / The vital / That it is equally happy expressing itself / Through the activity of pushing / Things / In the opposite direction / To that which they are lethargically willing to go / As in the amative language / Of the eyes / Fundamentally unreliable / You leave others their initial strength / Concentrating / On stretching the theoretic elastic of your conceptions / Till the extent is adequate / To the hooking on / Of any -- or all / Forms of creative idiosyncrasy / While the occasional snap / Of actual production / Stings the face of the public.