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If by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

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Veined, what a romantic word.

why romaNtique?

my sarcasm goes over your head.

then at least explain to me, what do they mean by 'twisted upon itself'?

i don't know! god, i don't know everything.

ok, relax, you'll grow up and find out

yes, one day i will evolve and suddenly it will dawn on me what "twisted upon itself" means.

i think you will forget me that very day. i'm too miserable for someone who understands what "twisted upon itself" means

you will get it over eventually.

now i'm going to go get ready for the lesbians.

get over it, IT.

yeah, right, and i was about to ask what you meant by... ok, go to your lesbians, and i will go to bed. also, NO I WON'T. you're my true love forever. such a pity you're a stupid heartless bitch!
~good night/day

The tawdry veined body emerges
twisted upon itself
like a winter wind . . . !

in fact maybe we are not supposed to understand this at all

i think the :twisted upon herself" person just holds herself trying to shrink off from you. like this:

yes, probably! or maybe she indulges in unhealthy masturbation.

what the fk is unhealthy masturbation?

that's when you musturbate and masturbate and masturbate, and at some point all that masturbation undermines your health, that's why it's called 'unhealthy', basically

hmmm... does it help to lose weight? probably i should try it then...

unhealthy masturbation will make you skinny in no time! you will also undermine your health in general, but come on, everything comes at a price, doesn't it