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XII

Voices break on the confines of passion
Desire    Suspicion    Man    Woman
Solve in the humid carnage

Flesh from flesh
Draws the inseparable delight
Kissing at gasps    to catch it

Is it true
That I have set you apart
Inviolate in an utter crystallization
Of all     the jolting of the crowd
Taught me willingly to live to share

Or are you
Only the other half
Of an ego's necessity
Scourging pride with compassion
To the shallow sound of dissonance
And boom of escaping breath

Mina Loy