|  | Epidermal Macabre 
 
Indelicate is he who loathesThe aspect of his fleshy clothes, --
 The flying fabric stitched on bone,
 The vesture of the skeleton,
 The garment neither fur nor hair,
 The cloak of evil and despair,
 The veil long violated by
 Caresses of the hand and eye.
 Yet such is my unseemliness:
 I hate my epidermal dress,
 The savage blood's obscenity,
 The rags of my anatomy,
 And willingly would I dispense
 With false accouterments of sense,
 To sleep immodestly, a most
 Incarnadine and carnal ghost.
 
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