Journal of Italian Translation

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without passion or wanting to forget it
I who burned with passion
the passion extinguished in the burning
I who burned with pain at
seeing passion thus extinguished.
To extinguish covetous passion!
To distinguish passion from the
true yearning for extinguished passion
extinguish everything that is
extinguish everything that rhymes
with is: extinguish myself, the passion
the passion burning so fiercely
that it put itself out:
Extinguish the passion for self!
extinguish the verse that rhymes
with itself: even extinguishing me
extinguish all the rhymes in
“e”: maybe passion won out
by extinguishing the rhyme in “e”.
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