Simulacra
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hy does the horse-faced lady of just the unmentionable ageWalk down Longacre reciting Swinburne to herself, inaudibly?Why does the small child in the soiled-white imitation fur coatCrawl in the very black gutter beneath the grape stand?Why does the really handsome young woman approach me in Sackville StreetUndeterred by the manifest age of my trappings?
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