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Edit box size: ⇓ More rows Reset to default size ⇒ More columns ''note on spacing: Yes, it really is supposed to look more or less like this! The wiki text coding has been upgraded so now I can show you more or less what this poem is supposed to look like. There's still a little bit of weirdness but it's infinitely closer than before. If you'd like to see how I did it, just got to the "Edit This Page" screen to see all the funky code I forced onto it.'' –– A dream we dreamed >>> each <<< separately >>> we two <<< of love >>> and of <<< desire–– that fused in the night–– in the distance >>> over <<< the meadows >>> by day <<< impossible–– >>> The city <<< disappeared >>> when <<< we arrived–– A dream a little false toward which >>> now <<< we stand >>> and stare <<< transfixed–– All at once >>> in the east <<< rising! All white! small as a flower— a locust cluster a shad bush >>> blossoming <<< Over the swamps >>> a wild <<< magnolia bud— >>> greenish <<< white a northern >>> flower— <<< And so >>> we live looking— <<< At night >>> it wakes <<< On the black >>> sky— <<< a dream toward which we love— at night >>> more <<< than a little >>> false— <<< We have bred we have dug we have figured up our costs we have bought an old rug— We batter at our unsatisfactory >>> brilliance— <<< There is no end >>> to desire— <<< Let us break >>> through <<< and go there— in >>> vain! <<< —delectable >>> amusement: <<< Milling about— Money! in armored trucks— Two men >>> walking <<< at two paces from >>> each other <<< their right hands >>> at the hip— <<< on the butt of an automatic— till they themselves hold up the bank and themselves >>> drive off <<< for themselves >>> the money <<< in an armored car— For love! Carefully >>> carefully tying <<< carefully selected wisps of long dark hair wisp by wisp upon the stubs of his kinky wool— For two hours three hours >>> they worked— until <<< he coiled >>> the thick <<< knot upon that whorish >>> head— <<< Dragged >>> insensible <<< upon his face by the lines— —a running horse For love. Their eyes >>> blown out— <<< —for love, for love! Neither the rain Nor the storm— can keep them for love! from the daily accomplishment >>> of their <<< appointed rounds— Guzzling the creamy foods >>> while <<< out of sight >>> in <<< the sub-cellar— the waste fat the old vegetables >>> chucked down <<< a chute >>> the foulest <<< sink in the world— And go on the out-tide ten thousand >>> cots <<< floating to sea >>> like weed <<< that held back the pristine ships— And fattened there an eel in the water pipe— No end— There! There! There! —a dream of lights >>> hiding <<< the iron reason >>> and stone <<< a settled >>> cloud— <<< City whose stars of matchless splendor— >>> and <<< in bright-edged >>> clouds <<< the moon— bring silence breathlessly— Tearful city on a summer’s day the hard grey >>> dwindling <<< in a wall of >>> rain— <<< farewell! ''--William Carlos Williams, 1936'' This is a minor edit.
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