Should functions and actions [40] Be parallel plays, Should my I be they And their they be I? And resting men in graveyards— [44] Don’t they have such qualities? No deviation; Calm, still, and plain. But I am not dead—not yet! So I must refuse the tomb For the living: Embrace that speech, Embrace such look, Embrace decorum, Embrace A, B, C, and D... Can it be called a subtle blunder To confuse uniformity with unity? And it is an utter shame To misconstrue ‘parallel’ To ‘harmony’. Should everything rhyme to suggest unity? [60] Should I or should I not Be a man as the man they see; What a man appears to be According to the echoes of conformity? And if I choose what a man ought to be For the viewing pleasure of many, By depicting the same Infirmity and idiocy Would this be a slap to individuality, That to be happy, One must settle With the throes of monotony?
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