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“Love in the Asylum” by Dylan Thomas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (27 Oct 1915 – 9 Nov 1953)
A stranger has come
To share my room in the house not right in the head,
A girl mad as birds
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Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume.
Strait in the mazed bed
She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds
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Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room,
At large as the dead,
Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards.
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She has come possessed
Who admits the delusive light through the bouncing wall,
Possessed by the skies
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She sleeps in the narrow trough yet she walks the dust
Yet raves at her will
On the madhouse boards worn thin by my walking tears.
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And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.