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 "title": "At the Door of the House",
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 "poet": "Mina Loy",
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  "year": 1917,
  "venue": "Others: An Anthology of the New Verse (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1917)",
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    "text": "A thousand women’s eyes",
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   {
    "text": "Riveted to the unrealisable",
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   {
    "text": "Scatter the wash-stand of the card-teller",
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    "text": "Defiled marble of Carrara",
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   {
    "text": "On which she spreads",
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    "text": "Color-picture maps of destiny",
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    "text": "In the corner",
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    "text": "Of an inconducive bed-room",
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    "text": "“Impassioned",
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    "text": "Doubly impassioned",
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    "text": "Sad",
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    "text": "You see these three cards",
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   {
    "text": "But here is the double Victory",
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    "text": "And there is an elderly lady",
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    "text": "Ill in whom you are concerned",
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   {
    "text": "This is the Devil",
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    "text": "And these two skeletons",
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    "text": "Are mortifications",
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    "text": "You are going to make a journey",
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    "text": "At evening about love",
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    "text": "Here is the Man of the Heart",
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    "text": "Turning his shoulders to a lady",
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    "text": "Covered with tears about matrimony",
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    "text": "At the door of your house",
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    "text": "There is a letter about an affair",
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    "text": "And a bed and a table",
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   {
    "text": "And this ace of spades turned upside-down",
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   {
    "text": "‘With respect’",
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    "text": "Means that some man",
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    "text": "Has well you know",
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    "text": "Intentions little honorable",
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    "text": "Here you are covered with tears",
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    "text": "For a deception",
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    "text": "The Man of the Heart",
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    "text": "Is in thoughtfulness for a letter",
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   {
    "text": "He will make a journey at evening",
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   {
    "text": "And really lady",
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   {
    "text": "I should say",
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   {
    "text": "It will not be long before you see him",
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   {
    "text": "For there he is at the door of the house",
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    "text": "And look",
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    "text": "Here are you",
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   {
    "text": "And here is he",
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    "text": "In life and thought",
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   {
    "text": "At the door of the house”",
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    "text": "Muddled among the aniline brightness of the Tauro cards",
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    "text": "The wheels with wings",
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   {
    "text": "The rows on rows of goblets",
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   {
    "text": "Passionate magenta blossoms",
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   {
    "text": "Hermits —bring luck⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Moons Prison-fortresses",
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   {
    "text": "Cudgels",
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    "text": "A man cut in half",
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    "text": "Means a deception",
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    "text": "And the nude woman",
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    "text": "Stands for the world",
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    "text": "Those eyes",
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   {
    "text": "Of Petronilla Lucia Letizia",
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   {
    "text": "Felicita",
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   {
    "text": "Filomena Amalia",
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   {
    "text": "Orsola Geltrude Caterina Delfina",
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   {
    "text": "Zita Bibiana Tarsilla",
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   {
    "text": "Eufemia,",
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   {
    "text": "Looking for the little love-tale",
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   {
    "text": "That never came true",
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    "text": "At the door of the house",
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