******* was restricted With pathetic erectness Amenable to advances The timid defences Arrested by my strangeness This aspect of shabby gentility Nervous delicacy, refinement A secure juxtaposition Grovels on the floor Then promptly devoured... I must be at the theatre This dingy place Near the sky That faint fragrance of art Unstrung and jaded Mocking shadows This confusion of tongues Seduced to society Imagination...Memories Enigmatical and notorious Like the malice of the world Ushered into the vague Forlorn old age.