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Topiary

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Failing sometimes to understand     Why there are folk whose flesh should seem     Like carrion puffed with noisome steam,     Fly-blown to the eye that looks on it,     Fly-blown to the touch of a hand;     Why there are men without any legs,     Whizzing along on little trollies     With long long arms like apes':     Failing to see why God the Topiarist     Should train and carve and twist     Men's bodies into such fantastic shapes:     Yes, failing to see the point of it all, I sometimes wish     That I were a fabulous thing in a fool's mind,     Or, at the ocean bottom, in a world that is deaf and blind,     Very remote and happy, a great goggling fish.

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