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I Love you. That seems simple? No!
Hear what the physiologist
Says on the subject. Zo and fro
The motor axis of the brain
Eitts on the cerebellum hard,
Makes the medulla itch : the bard
Twttches hes spinal cord again,
Excites Rolando’s fissure, and
Impinges on the Pineal gland.
Then Hippocampus major strikes
The nerves, and we may say ‘He likes,”
But of the umbilical cord
Cut the cerebrum like a sword,
And afferent ganglia, sensory bones,
Shake in the caecum: then one groans
“ He likes Miss What's your Name.” And if
The appendix vermiformis biff
The pericardium, pleura shoves
The femur—we may say: ‘‘ He loves.”
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