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ANOTHER LAMENT OF LORD PIERROT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She, the one who should put me on to woman
Last Line: "it was in earnest then?"
Subject(s): Despair; Love


She, the one who should put me on to Woman!
We will say to her, to begin with, in my least chilly manner:
"The sum of the angles of a triangle, dear heart,
Is equal to two right angles."

And if this cry escapes her: "God, O God! How I love you!"
-"God will recognize his own." Or, stung to the quick:
-"My keyboards have a soul, you will be my sole theme."
I: "All is relative."

With both her eyes, then! feeling herself too banal:
"Ah! You do not love me; so many others are jealous!"
And I, with an eye which is carried away toward the Unconscious:
"Thanks, not badly; and you?"

-"Let us play at finding out who is the most faithful!"
-"What's the use, O Nature!"
"So that the one who loses wins!" Then, another verse:
-"Ah! you will be bored first, I am sure of it . . ."
-"After you, please."

Finally, if, of an evening, she dies among my books,
Meek; pretending still not to believe my eyes,
I will have a word: "Ah yes, but, we had Enough to live on!
It was in earnest then?"





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