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Caught in a mesh of living veins,
In cell of padded bone,
He loneliest is when he pretends
That he is not alone.
We’d free the incarcerate race of man
That such a doom endures
Could only you unlock my skull,
Or I creep into yours.

—Ogden Nash, Listen..., reprinted in Candy is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash