Her mother looked in at the door. "What are you doing it for, Mary?"

"Oh--for nothing."

"Then for pity's sake come down into the warm room and do it there.

You'll catch cold."

She hated the warm room.

The poem would be made up of many poems. It would last a long time,

through the winter and on into the spring. As long as it lasted she would

be happy. She would be free from the restlessness and the endless idiotic

reverie of desire.

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