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nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Here above	A
cracks in the buldings are filled with battered moonlight	B
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat	C
It lies at his feet like a circle for a doll to stand on	D
and he makes an inverted pin the point magnetized to the moon	E
He does not see the moon he observes only her vast properties	F
feeling the queer light on his hands neither warm nor cold	G
of a temperature impossible to records in thermometers	H
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nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp But when the Man Moth	I
pays his rare although occasional visits to the surface	J
the moon looks rather different to him He emerges	K
from an opening under the edge of one of the sidewalks	L
and nervously begins to scale the faces of the buildings	M
He thinks the moon is a small hole at the top of the sky	N
proving the sky quite useless for protection	O
He trembles but must investigate as high as he can climb	P
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nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Up the fa ades	Q
his shadow dragging like a photographer's cloth behind him	R
he climbs fearfully thinking that this time he will manage	S
to push his small head through that round clean opening	T
and be forced through as from a tube in black scrolls on the light	B
Man standing below him has no such illusions	U
But what the Man Moth fears most he must do although	V
he fails of course and falls back scared but quite unhurt	W
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nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Then he returns	X
to the pale subways of cement he calls his home He flits	X
he flutters and cannot get aboard the silent trains	X
fast enough to suit him The doors close swiftly	Y
The Man Moth always seats himself facing the wrong way	Z
and the train starts at once at its full terrible speed	A2
without a shift in gears or a gradation of any sort	B2
He cannot tell the rate at which he travels backwards	X
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nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Each night he must	C2
be carried through artificial tunnels and dream recurrent dreams	X
Just as the ties recur beneath his train these underlie	N
his rushing brain He does not dare look out the window	V
for the third rail the unbroken draught of poison	O
runs there beside him He regards it as a disease	X
he has inherited the susceptibility to He has to keep	D2
his hands in his pockets as others must wear mufflers	X
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nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp If you catch him	R
hold up a flashlight to his eye It's all dark pupil	E2
an entire night itself whose haired horizon tightens	X
as he stares back and closes up the eye Then from the lids	X
one tear his only possession like the bee's sting slips	X
Slyly he palms it and if you're not paying attention	O
he'll swallow it However if you watch he'll hand it over	F2
cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink	G2

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