Solution

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Use equal small excisions on the two sides of each real pole. The Cauchy principal value is
For , close the complex contour in the upper half-plane and indent above , leaving the poles outside the contour. The residue theorem and the vanishing of the large semicircle integral give the principal-value integral as times the sum of the two real-pole residues. Each clockwise indentation contributes times its residue. Since
the sum is . Taking the real part yields the answer
The decay on the large arc follows directly from and the quadratic denominator.

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