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The Patent-leather Shoe

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The poet thought: ah, I have enough trash!     The whores, the theater, and the moon in the city,     The dress-shirts, the streets, and smells,     The nights and the coaches and the windows,     The laughter, the street-lights and murders -     I'm really fed up now with all the crap,     Damn it!     Whatever will be will be - it's all the same to me:     The patent leather shoe Hurts me.    And I take it off -     People might turn around, surprised.     Only it's a shame about my silk socks...

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