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<h2 class="nobreak">THE COURTESAN CHATS</h2>
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<div class="verse">Last night I met a passive man</div>
<div class="verse">With almost no curve to his face,</div>
<div class="verse">And skin relentlessly white.</div>
<div class="verse">He made me tell his fortune</div>
<div class="verse">With a pack of cards.</div>
<div class="verse">“Jack of hearts—your love will be</div>
<div class="verse">A scullion overturning trays of food</div>
<div class="verse">And standing dubiously in their midst.”</div>
<div class="verse">“Queen of diamonds—you will have a wife</div>
<div class="verse">Like a thistle dipped in frost,</div>
<div class="verse">Helpless in your sheathed hands.”</div>
<div class="verse">“Deuce of clubs—a downcast jester</div>
<div class="verse">Will pester you with slanting malice</div>
<div class="verse">When you seek to play the king.”</div>
<div class="verse">“Ace of hearts—your life will stand</div>
<div class="verse">Straight in a desperate majesty,</div>
<div class="verse">Its lurid robes ever slipping</div>
<div class="verse">And one wound endlessly dripping.”</div>
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<div class="verse">The passive man blew out a candle</div>
<div class="verse">On the table and bade me leave,</div>
<div class="verse">Not desiring me to see his face.</div>
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