immortal slave departing this misty island
                                believe the magician's stuttering smile of vapor
                                owner of any empty consumer of doubt as maybe not
                                succumbing to the willowy with wishful eyes
                                her never foot in the serial slipper of pity
                                i the illness wasting in a palace of self
                                decaying in a forgotten sickness
                                a monument of a mechanism as if it were




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