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DROPPING CHIN by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG

First Line: CALL THE ILLUSION WHAT YOU WILL
Last Line: STOOPING TO A PENNY.
Subject(s): GUITARS; MOON; SINGING & SINGERS; SONGS;
Call the illusion what you will,
people the balcony
with the leaning, beckoning masks
of your own lunacy:
tune your guitar to these,
bringing your heart to woo your head,
a struggling mood reaching clear to art;
and don't listen to neighbors applauding;
or see the moon come tossing
a copper ring:
for a man may lose his song
stooping to a penny.



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