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Valentine's Day Love Poems

The New Thinkery

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I've Got It Backwards. Bertumnes, Who's Coming In.

The poem opens up with the speaker, which we assume to be Machiavelli. But it turns out that before you get to the story of an exurette, he gets the story of Palatinus and Pomona. She's put a wall around her garden so that you can't get in there. There's the Palatinus, who's actually apparently can shift shapes.

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