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 "title": "One O’Clock at Night",
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 "poet": "Mina Loy",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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 "container": "Three Moments in Paris",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1915,
  "venue": "Rogue, vol. I no. 4 (1 May 1915), p. 10, as part I of “Three Moments in Paris”",
  "note": "Read on the page image of the Beinecke copy: the issue’s imprint line reads “Volume I, No. 4, May 1, 1915”, its contents leaf lists “THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS … Mina Loy … Page 10”, and the poem stands there as part of a group headed “Three Moments in Paris / By MINA LOY”. The text held here follows the 1923 Lunar Baedecker printing, not this one.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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    "text": "Though you had never possessed me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I had belonged to you since the beginning of time",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sleepily I sat on your chair beside you",
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   {
    "text": "Leaning against your shoulder",
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   {
    "text": "And your careless arm across my back gesticulated",
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    "text": "As your indisputable male voice roared",
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   {
    "text": "Through my brain and my body",
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   {
    "text": "Arguing dynamic decomposition",
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   {
    "text": "Of which I was understanding nothing",
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   {
    "text": "Sleepily",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the only less male voice of your brother pugilist of the intellect",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Boomed as it seemed to me so sleepy",
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   {
    "text": "Across an interval of a thousand miles",
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    "text": "An interim of a thousand years",
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   {
    "text": "But you who make more noise than any man in the world when you clear your throat",
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   {
    "text": "Deafening woke me",
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   {
    "text": "And I caught the thread of the argument",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Immediately assuming my personal mental attitude",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And ceased to be a woman",
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   {
    "text": "Beautiful half-hour of being a mere woman",
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   {
    "text": "The animal woman",
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   {
    "text": "Understanding nothing of man",
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   {
    "text": "But mastery and the security of imparted physical heat",
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   {
    "text": "Indifferent to cerebral gymnastics",
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    "text": "Or regarding them as the self-indulgent play of children",
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    "text": "Or the thunder of alien gods",
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   {
    "text": "But you woke me up",
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   {
    "text": "Anyhow who am I that I should criticize your theories of plastic velocity",
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    "text": "“Let us go home she is tired and wants to go to bed.”",
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