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Nietzsche says Woman has cause for shame If she unlearns her art of charming. But he had no more transparent plane From which to analyze the world Than I who corset idle women And stand to labour to their conversation. Tiens! Aphrodite is long dead And her progeny are become asexual marionettes To dance and not pay. Some women aid slackened muscles With steel and satin stripes, Some buy stiffened nainsook To shape their barrenness, And mirrors flatter the deception. Yesterday I measured a fevered creature To suckle a child And she completes the metaphor. Clothed in renascent flesh A mirror seemed the last place that she cared to look. When I rejoiced to see comeliness Arrows pointed in her eyes. She was too deceived by fantasie To divine her glory.