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MADMAN by MARIAN NEVIN FUNK

First Line: HE SAID HE WAS AFRAID
Last Line: IN HIS BRAIN.
Subject(s): INSANITY; MADNESS; MENTAL ILLNESS;
He said he was afraid
To sleep in a room
Where mirrors held
The empty moon.

The wind he said
Came up his stair
With three stars tangled
In her hair;

That monstrous
Caravans went by
In the black desert
Of his sky.

But she that yearlong
There had lain;
@3Coignes of shadow
In his brain.@1



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