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 "poet": "Mina Loy",
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  "year": 1920,
  "venue": "Others for 1919: An Anthology of the New Verse (New York, N. L. Brown, 1920)",
  "note": "First located printing. The volume is titled for 1919 and its imprint reads New York MCMXX with a 1920 copyright. Its acknowledgement lists the poems reprinted from elsewhere and does not list Loy's, stating that the remainder “appeared originally in the magazine, Others, or were contributed to the present anthology direct” — so an earlier Others printing has not been ruled out.",
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    "text": "We have flowed out of ourselves",
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    "text": "Beginning on the outside",
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    "text": "That shrivable skin",
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    "text": "Where you leave off",
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    "text": "Of infinite elastic",
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    "text": "Walking the ceiling",
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    "text": "Our eyelashes polish stars",
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    "text": "Curled close in the youngest corpuscle",
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    "text": "Of a descendant",
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    "text": "We spit up our passions in our grand-dams",
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    "text": "Fixing the extension of your reactions",
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    "text": "Our shadow lengthens",
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    "text": "You are so old",
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    "text": "Born in our immortality",
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    "text": "Stuck fast as Life",
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    "text": "In one impalpable",
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    "text": "Omniprevalent Dimension",
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    "text": "We are turned inside out",
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    "text": "Your cities lie digesting in our stomachs",
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    "text": "Street lights footle in our ocular darkness",
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    "text": "Having swallowed your irate hungers",
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    "text": "Satisfied before bread-breaking",
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    "text": "To your dissolution",
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    "text": "We splinter into Wholes",
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    "text": "Stirring the remorses of your tomorrow",
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    "text": "Among the refuse of your unborn centuries",
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    "text": "In our busy ashbins",
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    "text": "Stink the melodies",
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    "text": "Of your",
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    "text": "So easily reducible",
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    "text": "Adolescences",
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    "text": "Our tissue is of that which escapes you",
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    "text": "Birth-Breaths and orgasms",
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    "text": "The shattering tremor of the static",
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    "text": "The far-shore of an instant",
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    "text": "The unsurpassable openness of the circle",
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    "text": "Legerdemain of God",
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    "text": "Only in the segregated angles of Lunatic Asylums",
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    "text": "Do those who have strained to exceeding themselves",
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    "text": "The mouthed echoes of what",
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    "text": "Of the half that is left inside them.",
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