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			(To a SPECIAL friend) 
 
Autopsychography - Fernando Pessoa 
 
The poet is a pretender, 
who pretends so completely 
he even pretends to pain 
the pain he really feels. 
 
And those who read what he writes, 
reading of pain, feel truly 
neither of those pains he has, 
but what they themselves have not. 
 
So round its track goes 
wheeling, to entertain our reason, 
this string of carriages 
they call the heart.
		
