My shadow performed angular acrobatics,
As if music hall performer in Nineteenth-Century Paris.  

I asked my shadow, "Why are you wearing a top hat,
Making those absurd gestures?"  

My shadow said, "I'm the only thing that has been close
To you all your life, and I hate to see you so sad.  So I decided to entertain."  

Entertain, I said to myself, even my shadow does not understand me.
Suddenly, I realized my shadow understood me better than I understood myself.    

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