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“i shall imagine life
is not worth dying,if
(and when)roses complain
their beauties are in vain

but though mankind persuades
itself that every weed's
a rose,roses(you feel
certain)will only smile”
― e.e. cummings, E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962