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Tangled Hair/One Night

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4589864Tangled HairShio SakanishiAkiko Yosano

One Night

In every room
Light a hundred candle-power light:
In every vase
Arrange poppies and roses:
Not to comfort
But to chastise.
For here a woman
—Forgetting to praise,
Forgetting to thank—
Suddenly wished to weep
Over a trifle.