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Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.


Juvenal

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"For what? Nothing's...
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And flee from any stick they throw;
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The awful image of a nameless dread ―
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young poets shiver

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WILLIAM BLAKE put some honey and sea
water by your bed.
acknowledge. that your being needs sweetness
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Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;
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Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.
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looking up at the ceiling
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You caused others.
Forget the suffering
Others caused you.
...
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Rising and reaching are what make you c...
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I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissi...
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Or in the heart, or in the head?
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to
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who
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Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
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Separating them is wh...
RICHIE NORTON So predictable makes you to sleep??
Makes you to get interested???
So what to start??? A c...
DEYTH BANGER When twilight drops her curtain down
And pins it with a star
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By deeds that you do,
By words that y...
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I know you can keep it
because you don't really exist....
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Thus, a coffin, became my bed.
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Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart...
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desired until rotten.
The lot of the author...
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
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