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 "title": "Her Lips Are Copper Wire",
 "poet": "Jean Toomer",
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    "text": "whisper of yellow globes",
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   {
    "text": "gleaming on lamp-posts that sway",
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    "text": "like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog",
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    "text": "and let your breath be moist against me",
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    "text": "like bright beads on yellow globes",
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    "text": "telephone the power-house",
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    "text": "that the main wires are insulate",
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    "text": "(her words play softly up and down",
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    "text": "dewy corridors of billboards)",
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    "text": "then with your tongue remove the tape",
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    "text": "and press your lips to mine",
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