The Condolence
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A mis soledades voy,__De mis soledades vengo,__Porque por andar conmigo__Mi bastan mis pensamientos._Lope de Vega. O my fellow sufferers, songs of my youth,A lot of asses praise you because you are “virile,”We, you, I! We are “Red Bloods”!Imagine it, my fellow sufferers--Our maleness lifts us out of the ruck,Who’d have foreseen it? O my fellow sufferers, we went out under the trees,We were in especial bored with male stupidity.We went forth gathering delicate thoughts,Our “_fantastikon_” delighted to serve us.We were not exasperated with women,for the female is ductile. And now you hear what is said to us:We are compared to that sort of personWho wanders about announcing his sexAs if he had just discovered it.Let us leave this matter, my songs,and return to that which concerns us.
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