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    "text": "You felons on trial in courts,",
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    "text": "You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins chain’d and handcuff’d with iron,",
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   {
    "text": "Who am I too that I am not on trial or in prison?",
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    "text": "Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain’d with iron, or my ankles with iron?",
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    "text": "You prostitutes flaunting over the trottoirs or obscene in your rooms,",
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    "text": "Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?",
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    "text": "O culpable! I acknowledge⁠—I expose!",
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    "text": "(O admirers, praise not me⁠—compliment not me⁠—you make me wince,",
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    "text": "I see what you do not⁠—I know what you do not.)",
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    "text": "Inside these breast-bones I lie smutch’d and choked,",
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    "text": "Beneath this face that appears so impassive hell’s tides continually run,",
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    "text": "Lusts and wickedness are acceptable to me,",
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    "text": "I walk with delinquents with passionate love,",
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    "text": "I feel I am of them⁠—I belong to those convicts and prostitutes myself,",
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    "text": "And henceforth I will not deny them⁠—for how can I deny myself?",
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