It is over and we did fine. Aunt Nancy said so.
The couplet ended, why stand in loin-cloths and albs?
The last customer pokes for gloves in the shadow.
The cleaning women waddle with naked bulbs.
Do we hope to find words the author rejected with reason
(Pretending we in our own right make conversation)
Or button the plunged rapier, cancel drunk poison,
Alb the pagan, transpose cantina and mission?
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