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Marriage is cousined to measure. Parcel.
Intrigue is undershadowed by horror.
Romance is related to solitude. Solitude
Is overlooked as selfish. Greed

Is needed. Need is always hesitation,
Feeds magnificence to its parallel: Ourselves.
Ours is perhaps. Even if one
Believes that transience is a

Plump fruit that lasts its own journey
Owning space the earth inhabits
Is the sour-medicine smell
Of a new book convincing knowledge

To consider nostalgia. Convincing nostalgia

To fear no death.