…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.
— the last lines of "Epidermal Macabre," Theodore Roethke's lament for having "“fleshy clothes"
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