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E. Cummings +</p> + <ol> + <li>The Enormous Room</li> + <li>Tulips and Chimneys</li> + <li>&</li> + <li>Xli Poems</li> + <li>Is Five ¶</li> +</ol> +</div> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_v"> </span></p> +<p class="ph3"> + by E. E. Cummings<br> + </p> +<p class="ph2"> + is<br> + </p> + <figure class="figcenter illowp41" id="five" style="max-width: 17.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/five.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <p>5</p> + </figcaption> +</figure> + <br> + <br> +<p class="ph2"> + NEW YORK</p> +<p class="ph3">BONI & LIVERIGHT</p> +<p class="ph2">1926 +</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p class="ph4"> + COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY BONI & LIVERIGHT<br> + <br> + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED<br> + <br> + <br> + PRINTED BY SAMUEL AIWAZ JACOBS<br> + <br> + AT THE POLYTYPE PRESS<br> + <br> + NEW YORK +</p> + + +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</span></p> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="FOREWORD"> + FOREWORD + </h2> +</div> + + +<p>On the assumption that my technique is either complicated +or original or both, the publishers have politely +requested me to write an introduction to this book.</p> + +<p>At least my theory of technique, if I have one, is very +far from original; nor is it complicated. I can express it +in fifteen words, by quoting The Eternal Question And +Immortal Answer of burlesk, viz. “Would you hit a woman +with a child?—No, I’d hit her with a brick.” Like +the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision +which creates movement.</p> + +<p>If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things +made matter very little—somebody who is obsessed by +Making. Like all obsessions, the Making obsession has +disadvantages; for instance, my only interest in making +money would be to make it. Fortunately, however, +I should prefer to make almost anything else, including +locomotives and roses. It is with roses and locomotives +(not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney +Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara +Falls) that my “poems” are competing.</p> + +<p>They are also competing with each other, with elephants, +and with El Greco.</p> + +<p>Ineluctable preoccupation with The Verb gives a poet +one priceless advantage: whereas nonmakers must content +themselves with the merely undeniable fact that +two times two is four, he rejoices in a purely irresistible +truth (to be found, in abbreviated costume, upon +the title page of the present volume.)</p> + +<p class="author"> + E. E. Cummings. +</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_viii">[Pg viii]</span></p> +<div class="chapter"> +<p class="ph4"> + A LIST OF WHERE<br> + THESE POEMS<br> + <br> + have been published +</p> +</div> + +<p class="ph4">*</p> + + +<p class="ph4"> + England France Italy<br> + Austria and<br> + America +</p> + +<p class="ph4">*</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_ix">[Pg ix]</span></p> + +</div> + + +<p> +TITLE IS <a href="#Page_v">V</a><br> +<br> + FOREWORD <a href="#Page_vii">vii</a><br> + <br> + ONE <span class="allsmcap">I-XL</span> <a href="#Page_1">1</a>-<a href="#Page_1">55</a><br> + <br> + TWO <span class="allsmcap">I-XI</span> <a href="#Page_57">57</a>-<a href="#Page_57">72</a><br> + <br> + THREE <span class="allsmcap">I-X</span> <a href="#Page_73">73</a>-<a href="#Page_73">86</a><br> + <br> + FOUR <span class="allsmcap">I-XVIII</span> <a href="#Page_87">87</a>-<a href="#Page_87">107</a><br> + <br> + FIVE <span class="allsmcap">I-V</span> <a href="#Page_109">109</a>-<a href="#Page_109">115</a> +</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_x"></a><a id="Page_1"></a>[Pg 1]</span></p> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="ONE"> + ONE + </h2> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[Pg 2]</span></p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[Pg 3]</span></p> +<div class="chapter"> + + <p class="ph4"> + FIVE AMERICANS + </p> +</div> + + +<p class="ph4">I. LIZ</p> + <p class="rmr">I</p> +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">with breathing as (faithfully) her lownecked</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dress a little topples and slightly expands</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">one square foot mired in silk wrinkling loth</div> + <div class="verse indent0">stocking begins queerly to do a few</div> + <div class="verse indent0">gestures to death,</div> + <div class="verse indent14">the silent shoulders are both</div> + <div class="verse indent0">slowly with pinkish ponderous arms bedecked</div> + <div class="verse indent0">whose white thick wrists deliver promptly to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a deep lap enormous mindless hands.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and no one knows what (i am sure of this)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">her blunt unslender, what her big unkeen</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Business is rotten” the face yawning said</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">what her mouth thinks of</div> + <div class="verse indent20">(if it were a kiss</div> + <div class="verse indent0">distinct entirely melting sinuous lean . . .</div> + <div class="verse indent0">whereof this lady in some book had read</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span></p> + + +<p class="ph4">II. MAME</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">she puts down the handmirror. “Look at” arranging</div> + <div class="verse indent0">before me a mellifluous idiot grin</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(with what was nose upwrinkled into nothing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">earthly, while the slippery eyes drown</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in surging flesh). A thumblike index down-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dragging yanks back skin “see” (i, seeing, ceased</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to breathe). The plump left fist opening</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“wisdom.” Flicker of gold. “Yep. No gas. Flynn”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the words drizzle untidily from released</div> + <div class="verse indent0">cheeks “I’ll tell duh woild; some noive all right.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Aint much on looks but how dat baby ached.”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and when i timidly hinted “novocaine?”</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the eyes outstart, curl, bloat, are newly baked</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and swaggering cookies of indignant light</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span></p> + + +<p class="ph4">III. GERT</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">joggle i think will do it although the glad</div> + <div class="verse indent0">monosyllable jounce possibly can tell</div> + <div class="verse indent0">better how the balloons move (as</div> + <div class="verse indent0">her ghost lurks, a Beau Brummel sticking in its three-</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">cornered always moist mouth)—jazz,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">for whose twitching lips, between you and me</div> + <div class="verse indent0">almost succeeds while toddle rings the bell.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But if her tall corpsecoloured body seat</div> + <div class="verse indent0">itself (with the uncouth habitual dull</div> + <div class="verse indent0">jerk at garters) there’s no sharpest neat</div> + <div class="verse indent0">word for the thing.</div> + <div class="verse indent20">Her voice?</div> + <div class="verse indent30">gruesome:a trull</div> + <div class="verse indent0">leaps from the lungs “gimme uh swell fite</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">like up ter yknow, Rektuz, Toysday nite;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">where uh guy gets gayn troze uh lobstersalad</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span></p> + + +<p class="ph4">IV. MARJ</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“life?</div> + <div class="verse indent6">Listen” the feline she with radishred</div> + <div class="verse indent0">legs said (crossing them slowly)“I’m</div> + <div class="verse indent0">asleep. Yep. Youse is asleep kid</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and everybody is.” And i hazarded</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“god” (blushing slightly)—“O damn</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ginks like dis Gawd” opening slowlyslowly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">them—then carefully the rolypoly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">voice squatting on a mountain of gum did</div> + <div class="verse indent0">something like a whisper, “even her.”</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“The Madam?” I emitted; vaguely watching</div> + <div class="verse indent0">that mountainous worthy in the fragile act</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of doing her eyebrows.—Marj’s laughter smacked</div> + <div class="verse indent0">me: pummeling the curtains, drooped to a purr . . .</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i left her permanently smiling</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span></p> + + +<p class="ph4">V. FRAN</p> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">should i entirely ask of god why</div> + <div class="verse indent0">on the alert neck of this brittle whore</div> + <div class="verse indent0">delicately wobbles an improbably distinct face,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and how these wooden big two feet conclude</div> + <div class="verse indent0">happeningly the unfirm drooping bloated</div> + <div class="verse indent0">calves</div> + <div class="verse indent6">i would receive the answer more</div> + <div class="verse indent0">or less deserved, Young fellow go in peace.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which i do, being as Dick Mid once noted</div> + <div class="verse indent0">lifting a Green River (here’s to youse)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“a bloke wot’s well behaved” . . . and always try</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to not wonder how let’s say elation</div> + <div class="verse indent0">causes the bent eyes thickly to protrude—</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">or why her tiniest whispered invitation</div> + <div class="verse indent0">is like a clock striking in a dark house</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span></p> + + + <p class="ph4"> + POEM, OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL + </p> +</div> + + <p class="rml"> + II + </p> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">take it from me kiddo</div> + <div class="verse indent0">believe me</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my country, ’tis of</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">you, land of the Cluett</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Shirt Boston Garter and Spearmint</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Girl With The Wrigley Eyes(of you</div> + <div class="verse indent0">land of the Arrow Ide</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and Earl &</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Wilson</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Collars)of you i</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sing:land of Abraham Lincoln and Lydia E. Pinkham,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">land above all of Just Add Hot Water And Serve—</div> + <div class="verse indent0">from every B. V. D.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">let freedom ring</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">amen. i do however protest, anent the un</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-spontaneous and otherwise scented merde which</div> + <div class="verse indent0">greets one (Everywhere Why) as divine poesy per</div> + <div class="verse indent0">that and this radically defunct periodical. i would</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">suggest that certain ideas gestures</div> + <div class="verse indent0">rhymes, like Gillette Razor Blades</div> + <div class="verse indent0">having been used and reused</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to the mystical moment of dullness emphatically are</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Not To Be Resharpened. (Case in point</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">if we are to believe these gently O sweetly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">melancholy trillers amid the thrillers</div> + <div class="verse indent0">these crepuscular violinists among my and your</div> + <div class="verse indent0">skyscrapers—Helen&Cleopatra were Just Too Lovely,</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span> <div class="verse indent0">The Snail’s On The Thorn enter Morn and God’s</div> + <div class="verse indent0">In His andsoforth</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">do you get me? (according</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to such supposedly indigenous</div> + <div class="verse indent0">throstles Art is O World O Life</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a formula:example, Turn Your Shirttails Into</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Drawers and If It Isn’t An Eastman It Isn’t A</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Kodak therefore my friends let</div> + <div class="verse indent0">us now sing each and all fortissimo A-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mer</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">ca, I</div> + <div class="verse indent0">love,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">You. And there’re a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hun-dred-mil-lion-oth-ers, like</div> + <div class="verse indent0">all of you successfully if</div> + <div class="verse indent0">delicately gelded(or spaded)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">gentlemen(and ladies)—pretty</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">littleliverpill-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hearted-Nujolneeding-There’s-A-Reason</div> + <div class="verse indent0">americans(who tensetendoned and with</div> + <div class="verse indent0">upward vacant eyes, painfully</div> + <div class="verse indent0">perpetually crouched, quivering, upon the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sternly allotted sandpile</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—how silently</div> + <div class="verse indent0">emit a tiny violetflavoured nuisance:Odor?</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">ono.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">comes out like a ribbon lies flat on the brush</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + III + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">curtains part)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the peacockappareled</div> + <div class="verse indent0">prodigy of Flo’’s midnight</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Frolic dolores</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">small in the head keen chassised like a Rolls</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Royce</div> + <div class="verse indent0">swoops smoothly</div> + <div class="verse indent16">outward(amid</div> + <div class="verse indent0">tinkling-cheering-hammering</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">tables)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">while softly along Kirkland Street</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the infantile ghost of Professor</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Royce rolls</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">remembering that it</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">has for</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-gotten some-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">thing ah</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(my</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">necktie</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span></p> +</div> + + <p class="rmr"> + IV + </p> + + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">workingman with hand so hairy-sturdy</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you may turn O turn that airy hurdysturdygurdy</div> + <div class="verse indent0">but when will turn backward O backward Time in your no thy flight</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and make me a child, a pretty dribbling child, a little child.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">In thy your ear:</div> + <div class="verse indent0">en amerique on ne boit que de Jingyale.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">things are going rather kaka</div> + <div class="verse indent0">over there, over there.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">yet we scarcely fare much better—</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">what’s become of (if you please)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">all the glory that or which was Greece</div> + <div class="verse indent0">all the grandja</div> + <div class="verse indent0">that was dada?</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">make me a child, stout hurdysturdygurdyman</div> + <div class="verse indent0">waiter, make me a child. So this is Paris.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i will sit in the corner and drink thinks and think drinks,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in memory of the Grand and Old days:</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of Amy Sandburg</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of Algernon Carl Swinburned.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Waiter a drink waiter two or three drinks</div> + <div class="verse indent0">what’s become of Mæterlink</div> + <div class="verse indent0">now that April’s here?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(ask the man who owns one</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ask Dad, He knows).</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + V + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">yonder deadfromtheneckup graduate of a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">somewhat obscure to be sure university spends</div> + <div class="verse indent0">her time looking picturesque under</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the as it happens quite</div> + <div class="verse indent0">erroneous impression that he</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">nascitur</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + VI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Jimmie’s got a goil</div> + <div class="verse indent15">goil</div> + <div class="verse indent18">goil,</div> + <div class="verse indent22">Jimmie</div> + <div class="verse indent0">’s got a goil and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">she coitnly can shimmie</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">when you see her shake</div> + <div class="verse indent19">shake</div> + <div class="verse indent23">shake,</div> + <div class="verse indent29">when</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you see her shake a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">shimmie how you wish that you was Jimmie.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Oh for such a gurl</div> + <div class="verse indent14">gurl</div> + <div class="verse indent17">gurl,</div> + <div class="verse indent21">oh</div> + <div class="verse indent0">for such a gurl to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">be a fellow’s twistandtwirl</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">talk about your Sal-</div> + <div class="verse indent16">Sal-</div> + <div class="verse indent19">Sal-,</div> + <div class="verse indent231">talk</div> + <div class="verse indent0">about your Salo</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-mes but gimmie Jimmie’s gal.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + VII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the waddling</div> + <div class="verse indent0">madam star</div> + <div class="verse indent0">taps</div> + <div class="verse indent0">taps. “ready girls”. the</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">unspontaneous streets</div> + <div class="verse indent0">make bright their eyes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">blind irisher fiddles a</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">scotch jig in a stinking</div> + <div class="verse indent0">joyman bar</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a cockney is</div> + <div class="verse indent0">buying whiskies for a turk</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a waiter intones:bloo-moo-n</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sirkusricky</div> + <div class="verse indent0">platzburg</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hoppytoad yesmam. the</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">furious taximan</div> + <div class="verse indent0">p(ee)ps</div> + <div class="verse indent0">on his whistle somebody</div> + <div class="verse indent0">says here’s luck</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">somebody else says down the hatch</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the nigger smiles</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the jew stands</div> + <div class="verse indent0">besides his teddy-bears</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the sailor shuffles the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">night with Φυκινγ eyes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the great black preacher gargles jesus</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the aesthete indulges<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">his soul for certain things which died</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it is eighteen hundred</div> + <div class="verse indent0">years. . . .</div> + <div class="verse indent0">exactly</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent2">under the window</div> + <div class="verse indent2">under the window</div> + <div class="verse indent2">under the window walk</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the unburied feet of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the little ladies more than dead</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + VIII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">listen my children and you</div> + <div class="verse indent0">shall hear the true</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">story of Mr Do</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-nothing the wellknown parvenu</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(having dreamed of a corkscrew)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">studied with Freud a year or two</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and when Freud got through</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with Do-</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">nothing Do</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-nothing could do</div> + <div class="verse indent0">nothing which you</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and i are accustomed to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">accomplish two</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">or three times, and even a few</div> + <div class="verse indent0">more depending on the remu-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">nerativeness of the stimulus(eheu</div> + <div class="verse indent0">fu</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-gaces Postu-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">me boo</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">who)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + IX + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">even if all desires things moments be</div> + <div class="verse indent0">murdered known photographed,ourselves yawning will ask ourselves</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ou sont les neiges. . . . some</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">guys talks big</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">about Lundun Burlin an gay Paree an</div> + <div class="verse indent0">some guys claims der never was</div> + <div class="verse indent0">nutn like Nooer Leans Shikahgo Sain</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Looey Noo York an San Fran dictaphones</div> + <div class="verse indent0">wireless subways vacuum</div> + <div class="verse indent0">cleaners pianolas funnygraphs skyscrapers an safetyrazors</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">sall right in its way kiddo</div> + <div class="verse indent0">but as fer i gimme de good ole daze. . . .</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">in dem daze kid Christmas</div> + <div class="verse indent0">meant sumpn youse knows wot</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i refers ter Satter Nailyuh(comes but once er</div> + <div class="verse indent0">year)i’ll tell de woild one swell bangup</div> + <div class="verse indent0">time wen nobody wore no cloze</div> + <div class="verse indent0">an went runnin aroun wid eachudder Hell</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Bent fer election makin believe dey was chust born</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + X + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">death is more than</div> + <div class="verse indent0">certain a hundred these</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sounds crowds odours it</div> + <div class="verse indent0">is in a hurry</div> + <div class="verse indent0">beyond that any this</div> + <div class="verse indent0">taxi smile or angle we do</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">not sell and buy</div> + <div class="verse indent0">things so necessary as</div> + <div class="verse indent0">is death and unlike shirts</div> + <div class="verse indent0">neckties trousers</div> + <div class="verse indent0">we cannot wear it out</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">no sir which is why</div> + <div class="verse indent0">granted who discovered</div> + <div class="verse indent0">America ether the movies</div> + <div class="verse indent0">may claim general importance</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">to me to you nothing is</div> + <div class="verse indent0">what particularly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">matters hence in a</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">little sunlight and less</div> + <div class="verse indent0">moonlight ourselves against the worms</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">hate laugh shimmy</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">nobody loses all the time</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i had an uncle named</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Sol who was a born failure and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">nearly everybody said he should have gone</div> + <div class="verse indent0">into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which</div> + <div class="verse indent0">may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of all to use a highfalootin phrase</div> + <div class="verse indent0">luxuries that is or to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">wit farming and be</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it needlessly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">added</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">my Uncle Sol’s farm</div> + <div class="verse indent0">failed because the chickens</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ate the vegetables so</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my Uncle Sol had a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">chicken farm till the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">skunks ate the chickens when</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">my Uncle Sol</div> + <div class="verse indent0">had a skunk farm but</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the skunks caught cold and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">died and so</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my Uncle Sol imitated the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">skunks in a subtle manner</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">or by drowning himself in the watertank</div> + <div class="verse indent0">but somebody who’d given my Uncle Sol a Victor</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Victrola and records while he lived presented to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span> <div class="verse indent0">scrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with</div> + <div class="verse indent0">tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i remember we all cried like the Missouri</div> + <div class="verse indent0">when my Uncle Sol’s coffin lurched because</div> + <div class="verse indent0">somebody pressed a button</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(and down went</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my Uncle</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Sol</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and started a worm farm)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">now dis “daughter” uv eve(who aint precisely slim )sim</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">ply don’t know duh meanin uv duh woid sin in</div> + <div class="verse indent0">not disagreeable contras tuh dat not exacly fat</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“father”(adjustin his robe)who now puts on his flat hat</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XIII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(and i imagine</div> + <div class="verse indent0">never mind Joe agreeably cheerfully remarked when</div> + <div class="verse indent0">surrounded by fat stupid animals</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the jewess shrieked</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the messiah tumbled successfully into the world</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the animals continued eating. And i imagine she, and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">heard them slobber and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in the darkness)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">stood sharp angels with faces like Jim Europe</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XIV + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">it really must</div> + <div class="verse indent0">be Nice, never to</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">have no imagination)or never</div> + <div class="verse indent0">never to wonder about guys you used to(and them</div> + <div class="verse indent0">slim hot queens with dam next to nothing</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">on)tangoing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(while a feller tries</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to hold down the fifty bucks per</div> + <div class="verse indent0">job with one foot and rock a</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">cradle with the other)it Must be</div> + <div class="verse indent0">nice never to have no doubts about why you</div> + <div class="verse indent0">put the ring</div> + <div class="verse indent0">on(and watching her</div> + <div class="verse indent0">face grow old and tired to which</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">you’re married and hands get red washing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">things and dishes)and to never, never really wonder i</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mean about the smell</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of babies and how you</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">know the dam rent’s going to and everything and never, never</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Never to stand at no window</div> + <div class="verse indent0">because i can’t sleep(smoking sawdust</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">cigarettes in the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">middle of the night</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span></p> + + + + <p class="ph4">ITEM + </p> +</div> + +<p class="rml"> + XV</p> +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">this man is o so</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Waiter</div> + <div class="verse indent0">this;woman is</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">please shut that</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the pout And affectionate leer</div> + <div class="verse indent0">interminable pyramidal,napkins</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(this man is oh so tired of this</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a door opens by itself</div> + <div class="verse indent0">woman.) they so to speak were in</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Love once?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">now</div> + <div class="verse indent4">her mouth opens too far</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and:she attacks her Lobster without</div> + <div class="verse indent0">feet mingle under the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mercy.</div> + <div class="verse indent6">(exit the hors d’œures)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XVI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">it started when Bill’s chip let on to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the bulls he’d bumped a bloke back in fifteen.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Then she came toward him on her knees across the locked</div> + <div class="verse indent0">room. he knocked her cold and beat it for Chicago.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Eddie was waiting for him, and they cleaned up a few</div> + <div class="verse indent0">times—before she got the info</div> + <div class="verse indent0">from a broad that knew Eddie in Topeka, went clean</div> + <div class="verse indent0">daffy, and which was very silly hocked</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the diamond he gave her. Bill was put wise</div> + <div class="verse indent0">that she was coming with his kid inside her.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">He laughed. She came. he gave her a shove</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and asked Eddie did he care to ride her?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">. . . .she exactly lay, looking hunks of love</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">in The Chair he kept talking about eyes</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XVII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">IKEY(GOLDBERG)’S WORTH I’M</div> + <div class="verse indent0">TOLD $ SEVERAL MILLION</div> + <div class="verse indent0">FINKLESTEIN(FRITZ)LIVES</div> + <div class="verse indent0">AT THE RITZ WEAR</div> + <div class="verse indent0">earl & wilson COLLARS</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p> + + + + <p class="ph4"> + ? + </p> +</div> + +<p class="rmr"> + XVIII +</p> +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">why are these pipples taking their hets off?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the king & queen</div> + <div class="verse indent0">alighting from their limousine</div> + <div class="verse indent0">inhabit the Hotel Meurice (whereas</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i live in a garret and eat aspirine)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">but who is this pale softish almost round</div> + <div class="verse indent0">young man to whom headwaiters bow so?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hush—the author of Women By Night whose latest Seeds</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Of Evil sold 69 carloads before</div> + <div class="verse indent0">publication the girl who goes wrong you</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">know(whereas when i lie down i cough too</div> + <div class="verse indent0">much). How did the traffic get so jammed?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">bedad it is the famous doctor who inserts</div> + <div class="verse indent0">monkeyglands in millionaires a cute idea n’est-ce pas?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(whereas, upon the other hand, myself)but let us next demand</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">wherefore yon mob</div> + <div class="verse indent0">an accident? somebody got concus-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sion of the brain?—Not</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a bit of it, my dears merely the prime</div> + <div class="verse indent0">minister of Siam in native</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">costume, who</div> + <div class="verse indent0">emerging from a pissoir</div> + <div class="verse indent0">enters abruptly Notre Dame(whereas</div> + <div class="verse indent0">de gustibus non disputandum est</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my lady is tired of That sort of thing</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XIX + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">this young question mark man</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">question mark</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who suffers from</div> + <div class="verse indent0">indigestion question</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mark is a remarkably</div> + <div class="verse indent0">charming person</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">personally they tell</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">me as for me</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i only knows that</div> + <div class="verse indent0">as far as</div> + <div class="verse indent0">his pictures goes</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">he’s a wet dream</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">by Cézanne</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XX + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">mr youse needn’t be so spry</div> + <div class="verse indent0">concernin questions arty</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">each has his tastes but as for i</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i likes a certain party</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">gimme the he-man’s solid bliss</div> + <div class="verse indent0">for youse ideas i’ll match youse</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a pretty girl who naked is</div> + <div class="verse indent0">is worth a million statues</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XXI + </p> +</div> + + +<p>i was sitting in mcsorley’s. outside it was New +York and beautifully snowing.</p> + +<p>Inside snug and evil. the slobbering walls filthily +push witless creases of screaming warmth chuck pil- +lows are noise funnily swallows swallowing revolv- +ingly pompous a the swallowed mottle with smooth +or a but of rapidly goes gobs the and of flecks of and a +chatter sobbings intersect with which distinct disks of +graceful oath, upsoarings the break on ceiling- +flatness</p> + +<p>the Bar.tinking luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with +warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of +squirting taps plus slush of foam knocked off and a +faint piddle-of-drops she says I ploc spittle what the +lands thaz me kid in no sir hopping sawdust you kiddo +he’s a palping wreaths of badly Yep cigars who jim +him why gluey grins topple together eyes pout gestures +stickily point made glints squinting who’s a wink +bum-nothing and money fuzzily mouths take big +wobbly foot-steps every goggle cent of it get out ears +dribbles soft right old feller belch the chap hic sum- +more eh chuckles skulch. . . .</p> + +<p>and i was sitting in the din thinking drinking the ale, +which never lets you grow old blinking at the low +ceiling my being pleasantly was punctuated by the al- +ways retchings of a worthless lamp.</p> + +<p>when With a minute terrif iceffortone dirty squeal +of soiling light yanKing from bushy obscurity a bald +greenish foetal head established It suddenly upon the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span>huge neck around whose unwashed sonorous muscle +the filth of a collar hung gently.</p> + +<p>(spattered)by this instant of semiluminous nausea A +vast wordless nondescript genie of trunk trickled firm- +ly in to one exactly-mutilated ghost of a chair,</p> + +<p>a;domeshaped interval of complete plasticity,shoul- +ders,sprouted the extraordinary arms through an an- +gle of ridiculous velocity commenting upon an un- +clean table.and,whose distended immense Both paws +slowly loved a dinted mug</p> + +<p>gone Darkness it was so near to me, i ask of shad- +ow won’t you have a drink?</p> + +<p>(the eternal perpetual question)</p> + +<p>Inside snugandevil. i was sitting in mcsorley’s +It,did not answer.</p> + +<p>outside.(it was New York and beautifully,snowing. . . .</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XXII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">she being Brand</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">-new;and you</div> + <div class="verse indent0">know consequently a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">little stiff i was</div> + <div class="verse indent0">careful of her and(having</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">thoroughly oiled the universal</div> + <div class="verse indent0">joint tested my gas felt of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">her radiator made sure her springs were O.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">K.)i went right to it flooded-the-carburetor cranked her</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">up,slipped the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">clutch(and then somehow got into reverse she</div> + <div class="verse indent0">kicked what</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the hell)next</div> + <div class="verse indent0">minute i was back in neutral tried and</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">again slo-wly;bare,ly nudg. ing(my</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">lev-er Right-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">oh and her gears being in</div> + <div class="verse indent0">A 1 shape passed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">from low through</div> + <div class="verse indent0">second-in-to-high like</div> + <div class="verse indent0">greasedlightning justas we turned the corner ofDivinity</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">avenue i touched the accelerator and give</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">her the juice,good</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent18">(it</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span> </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">was the first ride and believe i we was</div> + <div class="verse indent0">happy to see how nice she acted right up to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the last minute coming back down by the Public</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Gardens i slammed on</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">internalexpanding</div> + <div class="verse indent0">&</div> + <div class="verse indent0">externalcontracting</div> + <div class="verse indent0">brakes Bothatonce and</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">brought allofher tremB</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-ling</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to a:dead.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">stand-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">;Still)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XXIII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">slightly before the middle of Congressman Pudd</div> + <div class="verse indent0">’s 4th of July oration, with a curse and a frown</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Amy Lowell got up</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and all the little schoolchildren sat down</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XXIV + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Dick Mid’s large bluish face without eyebrows</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">sits in the kitchen nights and chews a two-bit</div> + <div class="verse indent0">cigar</div> + <div class="verse indent6">waiting for the bulls to pull his joint.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Jimmie was a dude. Dark hair and nice hands.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">with a little eye that rolled and made its point</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Jimmie’s sister worked for Dick. And had some rows</div> + <div class="verse indent0">over percent. The gang got shot up twice, it</div> + <div class="verse indent0">operated in the hundred ands</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">All the chips would kid Jimmie to give them a kiss</div> + <div class="verse indent0">but Jimmie lived regular. stewed three times a week.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and slept twice a week with a big toothless girl</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in Yonkers.</div> + <div class="verse indent12">Dick Mid’s green large three teeth leak</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">smoke:remembering, two pink big lips curl. . . .</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">how Jimmie was framed and got his</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span></p> + + + + <p class="ph4"> + oDE + </p> +</div> + + <p class="rml"> + XXV +</p> +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">o</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the sweet & aged people</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who rule this world(and me and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you if we’re not very</div> + <div class="verse indent0">careful)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the darling benevolent mindless</div> + <div class="verse indent0">He—and She—</div> + <div class="verse indent0">shaped waxworks filled</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with dead ideas(the oh</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">quintillions of incredible</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dodderingly godly toothless</div> + <div class="verse indent0">always-so-much-interested-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in-everybody-else’s-business</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">bipeds)OH</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the bothering</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dear unnecessary hairless</div> + <div class="verse indent0">o</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ld</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XXVI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">on the Madam’s best april the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">twenty nellie</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">anyway and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it’s flutters everything</div> + <div class="verse indent0">queer;does smells he smiles is</div> + <div class="verse indent0">like Out of doors he’s a with</div> + <div class="verse indent0">eyes and making twice the a week</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you kind of,know(kind well of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">A sort of the way he smile but</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and her a I mean me a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Irish,cook but well oh don’t</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you makes burst want to dear somehow</div> + <div class="verse indent0">quickyes when(now,dark dear oh)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the iceman</div> + <div class="verse indent0">how,luminously</div> + <div class="verse indent0">oh how listens and,expands</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my somewherealloverme heart my</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the halfgloom coolish</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of The what are</div> + <div class="verse indent0">parks for wiggle yes has</div> + <div class="verse indent0">are leap,which,anyway</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">give rapid lapfulls of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">idiotic big hands</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XXVII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(as that named Fred</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-someBody:hippopotamus, scratch-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ing,one,knee with,its,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">friend observes I</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">pass Mr Tom Larsen twirls among</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">pale lips the extinct</div> + <div class="verse indent0">cigar)at</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">which</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">this(once flinger</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of lariats lean exroper of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">horned suddenly crashing things)man spits</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">quickly into the very bright spittoon</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XXVIII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">my uncle</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Daniel fought in the civil</div> + <div class="verse indent0">war band and can play the triangle</div> + <div class="verse indent0">like the devil)my</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">uncle Frank has done nothing for many</div> + <div class="verse indent0">years but fly kites and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">when the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">string breaks(or something)my uncle Frank breaks into</div> + <div class="verse indent0">tears. my uncle Tom</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">knits and is a kewpie above the ears(but</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">my uncle Ed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">that’s</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dead from the neck</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">up is lead all over</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Brattle Street by a castrated pup</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XXIX + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">than(by yon sunset’s wintry glow</div> + <div class="verse indent0">revealed)this tall strong stalwart youth,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">what sight shall human optics know</div> + <div class="verse indent0">more quite ennobling forsooth?</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">One wondrous fine sonofabitch</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(to all purposes and intents)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in which distinct and rich</div> + <div class="verse indent0">portrait should be included,gents</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">these(by the fire’s ruddy glow</div> + <div class="verse indent0">united)not less than sixteen</div> + <div class="verse indent0">children and of course you know</div> + <div class="verse indent0">their mother,of his heart the queen</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—incalculable bliss!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Picture it gents:our hero,Dan</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who as you’ve guessed already is</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the poorbuthonest workingman</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(by that bright flame whose myriad tints</div> + <div class="verse indent0">enrich a visage simple,terse,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">seated like any king or prince</div> + <div class="verse indent0">upon his uncorrupted arse</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">with all his hearty soul aglow)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">his nightly supper sups</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it isn’t snowing snow you know</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it’s snowing buttercups</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XXX + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">weazened Irrefutable unastonished</div> + <div class="verse indent0">two,countenances seated in arranging;sunlight</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with-ered unspea-king:tWeNtY,f i n g e r s, large</div> + <div class="verse indent0">four gnarled lips totter</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Therefore,approaching my twentysix selves</div> + <div class="verse indent0">bulging in immortal Spring express a cry of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">How do you find the sun,ladies?</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(graduallyverygradually “there is not enough</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of it” their,hands</div> + <div class="verse indent0">minutely</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">answered</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span></p> + + + <p class="ph4"> + MEMORABILIA + </p> +</div> + +<p class="rml"> + XXXI +</p> +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">stop look &</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">listen Venezia: incline thine</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ear you glassworks</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of Murano;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">pause</div> + <div class="verse indent0">elevator nel</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mezzo del cammin’ that means half-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">way up the Campanile, believe</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">thou me cocodrillo—</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">mine eyes have seen</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the glory of</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the coming of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the Americans particularly the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">brand of marriageable nymph which is</div> + <div class="verse indent0">armed with large legs rancid</div> + <div class="verse indent0">voices Baedekers Mothers and kodaks</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—by night upon the Riva Schiavoni or in</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the felicitous vicinity of the de l’Europe</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Grand and Royal</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Danielli their numbers</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">are like unto the stars of Heaven. . . .</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i do signore</div> + <div class="verse indent0">affirm that all gondola signore</div> + <div class="verse indent0">day below me gondola signore gondola</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and above me pass loudly and gondola</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span> <div class="verse indent0">rapidly denizens of Omaha Altoona or what</div> + <div class="verse indent0">not enthusiastic cohorts from Duluth God only,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">gondola knows Cincingondolanati i gondola don’t</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—the substantial dollarbringing virgins</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“from the Loggia where</div> + <div class="verse indent0">are we angels by O yes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">beautiful we now pass through the look</div> + <div class="verse indent0">girls in the style of that’s the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">foliage what is it didn’t Ruskin</div> + <div class="verse indent0">says about you got the haven’t Marjorie</div> + <div class="verse indent0">isn’t this wellcurb simply darling”</div> + <div class="verse indent36">—O Education:O</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">thos cook & son</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(O to be a metope</div> + <div class="verse indent0">now that triglyph’s here)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XXXII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a man who had fallen among thieves</div> + <div class="verse indent0">lay by the roadside on his back</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dressed in fifteenthrate ideas</div> + <div class="verse indent0">wearing a round jeer for a hat</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">fate per a somewhat more than less</div> + <div class="verse indent0">emancipated evening</div> + <div class="verse indent0">had in return for consciousness</div> + <div class="verse indent0">endowed him with a changeless grin</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">where a dozen staunch and leal</div> + <div class="verse indent0">citizens did graze at pause</div> + <div class="verse indent0">then fired by hypercivic zeal</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sought newer pastures or because</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">swaddled with a frozen brook</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of pinkest vomit out of eyes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which noticed nobody he looked</div> + <div class="verse indent0">as if he did not care to rise</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">one hand did nothing on the vest</div> + <div class="verse indent0">its wideflung friend clenched weakly dirt</div> + <div class="verse indent0">while the mute trouserfly confessed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a button solemnly inert.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Brushing from whom the stiffened puke</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i put him all into my arms</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and staggered banged with terror through</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a million billion trillion stars</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XXXIII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Babylon slim</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-ness of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">evenslicing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">eyes are chisels</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">scarlet Goes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with her</div> + <div class="verse indent0">whitehot</div> + <div class="verse indent0">face,gashed</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">by hair’s blue cold</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">jolts of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">lovecrazed abrupt</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">flesh split “Pretty</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Baby”</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">numb rhythm before christ</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XXXIV + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">this evangelist</div> + <div class="verse indent0">buttons with his big gollywog voice</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the kingdomofheaven up behind and crazily</div> + <div class="verse indent0">skating thither and hither in filthy sawdust</div> + <div class="verse indent0">chucks and rolls</div> + <div class="verse indent0">against the tent his thick joggling fists</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">he is persuasive</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the editor cigarstinking hobgoblin swims</div> + <div class="verse indent0">upward in hisswivelchair one fist dangling scandal while</div> + <div class="verse indent0">rapidly through mist a defunct king as</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">linotypes gobblehobble</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">our lightheavy twic twoc ingly attacks</div> + <div class="verse indent0">landing a onetwo</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which doubles up suddenly his bunged hinging</div> + <div class="verse indent0">victim against the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">giving ropes amid</div> + <div class="verse indent0">screams of deeply bulging thousands</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i too omit one kelly</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">in response to howjedooze the candidate’s new silk</div> + <div class="verse indent0">lid bounds gently from his baldness</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a smile masturbates softly in the vacant</div> + <div class="verse indent0">lot of his physiognomy</div> + <div class="verse indent0">his scientifically pressed trousers ejaculate spats</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a strikingly succulent getup</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">but</div> + <div class="verse indent0">we knew a muffhunter and he said to us Kid.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">daze nutn like it.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XXXV + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(ponder,darling,these busted statues</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of yon motheaten forum be aware</div> + <div class="verse indent0">notice what hath remained</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—the stone cringes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">clinging to the stone,how obsolete</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">lips utter their extant smile. . . .</div> + <div class="verse indent0">remark</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a few deleted of texture</div> + <div class="verse indent0">or meaning monuments and dolls</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">resist Them Greediest Paws of careful</div> + <div class="verse indent0">time all of which is extremely</div> + <div class="verse indent0">unimportant)whereas Life</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">matters if or</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">when the your- and my-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">idle vertical worthless</div> + <div class="verse indent0">self unite in a peculiarly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">momentary</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">partnership(to instigate</div> + <div class="verse indent0">constructive</div> + <div class="verse indent10">Horizontal</div> + <div class="verse indent0">business. . . .even so,let us make haste</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—consider well this ruined aqueduct</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">lady,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which used to lead something into somewhere)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XXXVI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">ta</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ppin</div> + <div class="verse indent0">g</div> + <div class="verse indent0">toe</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">hip</div> + <div class="verse indent0">popot</div> + <div class="verse indent0">amus Back</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">gen</div> + <div class="verse indent0">teel-ly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">lugu-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">bri ous</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent6">eyes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">LOOPTHELOOP</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">as</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">fathandsbangrag</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XXXVII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">poets yeggs and thirsties</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">since we are spanked and put to sleep by dolls let</div> + <div class="verse indent0">us not be continually astonished should</div> + <div class="verse indent0">from their actions and speeches</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sawdust perpetually leak</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">rather is it between such beddings and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">bumpings of ourselves to be observed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">how in this fundamental respect the well</div> + <div class="verse indent0">recognised regime of childhood is reversed</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">meantime in dreams let us investigate</div> + <div class="verse indent0">thoroughly each one his optima rerum first</div> + <div class="verse indent0">having taken care to lie upon our</div> + <div class="verse indent0">abdomens for greater privacy and lest</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">punished bottoms interrupt philosophy</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XXXVIII + </p> +</div> + + +<p>Will i ever forget that precarious moment?</p> + +<p>As i was standing on the third rail waiting for the +next train to grind me into lifeless atoms various ab- +surd thoughts slyly crept into my highly sexed mind.</p> + +<p>It seemed to me that i had first of all really made +quite a mistake in being at all born, seeing that i was +wifeless and only half awake, cursed with pimples, +correctly dressed, cleanshaven above the nombril, and +much to my astonishment much impressed by having +once noticed ( as an infantile phenomenon ) George +Washington almost incompletely surrounded by well- +drawn icecakes beheld being too strong, in brief :an +American, if you understand that i mean what i say i +believe my most intimate friends would never have +gathered.</p> + +<p>A collarbutton which had always not nothurt me not +much and in the same place.</p> + +<p>Why according to tomorrow’s paper the proletariat +will not rise yesterday.</p> + +<p>Inexpressible itchings to be photographed with Lord +Rothermere playing with Lord Rothermere billiards +very well by moonlight with Lord Rothermere.</p> + +<p>A crockodile eats a native, who in revenge beats it +insensible with a banana, establishing meanwhile a re- +ligious cult based on consubstantial intangibility.</p> + +<p>Personne ne m’aime et j’ai les mains froides.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</span></p> + +<p>His Royal Highness said “peek-a-boo” and thirty +tame fleas left the prettily embroidered howdah im- +mediately.</p> + +<p>Thumbprints of an angel named Frederick found +on a lightning-rod, Boston, Mass.</p> + +<p>such were the not unhurried reflections to which my +organ of imperception gave birth to which i should or- +dinarily have objected to which, considering the back- +ground, it is hardly surprising if anyone hardly should +call exactly extraordinary. We refer, of course, to my +position. A bachelor incapable of occupation, he had +long suppressed the desire to suppress the suppressed +desire of shall we say: Idleness, while meaning its +opposite? Nothing could be clearer to all concerned +than that i am not a policeman.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile the tea regressed.</p> + +<p>Kipling again H. G. Wells, and Anatole France +shook hands again and yet again shook again hands +again, the former coachman with a pipewrench of the +again latter then opening a box of newly without +exaggeration shot with some difficulty sardines. Mr. +Wiggin took Wrs. Miggin’s harm in is, extinguishing +the spitoon by a candle furnished by courtesy of the +management on Thursdays, opposite which a church +stood perfectly upright but not piano item:a water- +melon causes indigestion to William Cullen Longfel- +low’s small negro son, Henry Wordsworth Bryant.</p> + +<p>By this time,however,the flight of crows had ceased. +I withdrew my hands from the tennisracket. All was +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</span>over. One brief convulsive octopus, and then our hero +folded his umbrella.</p> + +<p>It seemed too beautiful.</p> + +<p>Let us perhaps excuse me if i repeat himself:these,or nearly these,were +the not unpainful thoughts which +occupied the subject of our attention;to speak even less +objectively,i was horribly scared i would actually fall +off the rail before the really train after all arrived. If +i should have made this perfectly clear,it entirely would +have been not my fault.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XXXIX + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">voices to voices, lip to lip</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i swear (to noone everyone) constitutes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">undying; or whatever this and that petal confutes. . .</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to exist being a peculiar form of sleep</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">what’s beyond logic happens beneath will;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">nor can these moments be translated: i say</div> + <div class="verse indent0">that even after April</div> + <div class="verse indent0">by God there is no excuse for May</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—bring forth your flowers and machinery:sculpture and prose</div> + <div class="verse indent0">flowers guess and miss</div> + <div class="verse indent0">machinery is the more accurate, yes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it delivers the goods, Heaven knows</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(yet are we mindful, though not as yet awake,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of ourselves which shout and cling, being</div> + <div class="verse indent0">for a little while and which easily break</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in spite of the best overseeing)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i mean that the blond absence of any program</div> + <div class="verse indent0">except last and always and first to live</div> + <div class="verse indent0">makes unimportant what i and you believe;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">not for philosophy does this rose give a damn. . .</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">bring on your fireworks, which are a mixed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">splender of piston and of pistil; very well</div> + <div class="verse indent0">provided an instant may be fixed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">so that it will not rub, like any other pastel.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(While you and i have lips and voices which</div> + <div class="verse indent0">are for kissing and to sing with</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch</div> + <div class="verse indent0">invents an instrument to measure Spring with?</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</span> </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">each dream nascitur,is not made. . .)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">why then to Hell with that: the other; this,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">since the thing perhaps is</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to eat flowers and not to be afraid.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XL + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">life hurl my</div> + <div class="verse indent0">yes,crumbles hand(ful released conarefetti)ev eryflitter,inga. where</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mil(lions of aflickf)litter ing brightmillion ofS hurl;edindodg:ing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">whom areEyes shy-dodge is bright cruMbshandful,quick-hurl edinwho</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Is flittercrumbs,fluttercrimbs are floatfallin,g;allwhere:</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a:crimbflitteringish is arefloatsis ingfallall!mil,shy milbrightlions</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my(hurl flicker handful</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in)dodging are shybrigHteyes is crum bs(alll)if,ey Es</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[Pg 56]</span></p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[Pg 57]</span></p> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="TWO"> + TWO +</h2> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[Pg 58]</span></p> + +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[Pg 59]</span></p> +<div class="chapter"> + <p class="rmr"> + I + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the season ’tis, my lovely lambs,</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">of Sumner Volstead Christ and Co.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the epoch of Mann’s righteousness</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the age of dollars and no sense.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Which being quite beyond dispute</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">as prove from Troy (N. Y.) to Cairo</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(Egypt) the luminous dithyrambs</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of large immaculate unmute</div> + <div class="verse indent0">antibolshevistic gents</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(each manufacturing word by word</div> + <div class="verse indent0">his own unrivalled brand of pyro</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-technic blurb anent the (hic)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hero dead that gladly (sic)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in far lands perished of unheard</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of maladies including flu)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">my little darlings, let us now</div> + <div class="verse indent0">passionately remember how—</div> + <div class="verse indent0">braving the worst, of peril heedless,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">each braver than the other, each</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(a typewriter within his reach)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">upon his fearless derrière</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sturdily seated—Colonel Needless</div> + <div class="verse indent0">To Name and General You know who</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a string of pretty medals drew</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(while messrs jack james john and jim</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in token of their country’s love</div> + <div class="verse indent0">received my dears the order of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The Artificial Arm and Limb)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—or, since bloodshed and kindred questions</div> + <div class="verse indent0">inhibit unprepared digestions,</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</span> <div class="verse indent0">come:let us mildly contemplate</div> + <div class="verse indent0">beginning with his wellfilled pants</div> + <div class="verse indent0">earth’s biggest grafter, nothing less;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the Honorable Mr. (guess)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who, breathing on the ear of fate,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">landed a seat in the legislat-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ure whereas tommy so and so</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(an erring child of circumstance</div> + <div class="verse indent0">whom the bulls nabbed at 33rd)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">pulled six months for selling snow</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + II + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">opening of the chambers close</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">quotes the microscopic pithicoid President</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in a new frock</div> + <div class="verse indent0">coat(scrambling all</div> + <div class="verse indent0">up over the tribune dances crazily</div> + <div class="verse indent0">& &)&</div> + <div class="verse indent0">chatters about Peacepeacepeace(to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">droppingly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">descend amid thunderous anthropoid applause)pronounced</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">by the way Pay the</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">extremely artistic nevertobeextinguished fla</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-me of the(very prettily indeed)arra-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">nged souvenir of the in spite of himself fa</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-mous soldier minus his na-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">me(so as not to hurt the perspective of the(hei</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-nous thought)otherwise immaculately tabulated vicinity)invei-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">gles a few mildly curious rai</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-ned on people(both male and female</div> + <div class="verse indent0">created He</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">then, And every beast of the field</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + III + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“next to of course god america i</div> + <div class="verse indent0">love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh</div> + <div class="verse indent0">say can you see by the dawn’s early my</div> + <div class="verse indent0">country ’tis of centuries come and go</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and are no more what of it we should worry</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in every language even deafanddumb</div> + <div class="verse indent0">thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry</div> + <div class="verse indent0">by jingo by gee by gosh by gum</div> + <div class="verse indent0">why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">iful than these heroic happy dead</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter</div> + <div class="verse indent0">they did not stop to think they died instead</div> + <div class="verse indent0">then shall the voices of liberty be mute?”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + IV + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">it’s jolly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">odd what pops into</div> + <div class="verse indent0">your jolly tete when the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">jolly shells begin dropping jolly fast you</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hear the rrmp and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">then nearerandnearerandNEARER</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and before</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you can</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">& we’re</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">NOT</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(oh—</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—i say</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">that’s jolly odd</div> + <div class="verse indent0">old thing, jolly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">odd, jolly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">jolly odd isn’t</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it jolly odd.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + V + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">look at this)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a 75 done</div> + <div class="verse indent0">this nobody would</div> + <div class="verse indent0">have believed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">would they no</div> + <div class="verse indent0">kidding this was my particular</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">pal</div> + <div class="verse indent0">funny aint</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it we was</div> + <div class="verse indent0">buddies</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i used to</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">know</div> + <div class="verse indent0">him lift the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">poor cuss</div> + <div class="verse indent0">tenderly this side up handle</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">with care</div> + <div class="verse indent0">fragile</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and send him home</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">to his old mother in</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a new nice pine box</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(collect</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + VI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">first Jock he</div> + <div class="verse indent0">was kilt a handsome</div> + <div class="verse indent0">man and James and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">next let me</div> + <div class="verse indent0">see yes Will that was</div> + <div class="verse indent0">cleverest</div> + <div class="verse indent0">he was kilt and my youngest</div> + <div class="verse indent0">boy was kilt last with</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the big eyes i loved like you can’t</div> + <div class="verse indent0">imagine Harry was o</div> + <div class="verse indent0">god kilt he was kilt everybody was kilt</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">they called them the kilties</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + VII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">lis</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-ten</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">you know what i mean when</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the first guy drops you know</div> + <div class="verse indent0">everybody feels sick or</div> + <div class="verse indent0">when they throw in a few gas</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and the oh baby shrapnel</div> + <div class="verse indent0">or my feet getting dim freezing or</div> + <div class="verse indent0">up to your you know what in water or</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with the bugs crawling right all up</div> + <div class="verse indent0">all everywhere over you all me everyone</div> + <div class="verse indent0">that’s been there knows what</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i mean a god damned lot of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">people don’t and never</div> + <div class="verse indent0">never</div> + <div class="verse indent0">will know,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">they don’t want</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">no</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + VIII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">come, gaze with me upon this dome</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of many coloured glass, and see</div> + <div class="verse indent0">his mother’s pride, his father’s joy,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">unto whom duty whispers low</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“thou must!” and who replies “I can!”</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—yon clean upstanding well dressed boy</div> + <div class="verse indent0">that with his peers full oft hath quaffed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the wine of life and found it sweet—</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a tear within his stern blue eye,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">upon his firm white lips a smile,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">one thought alone: to do or die</div> + <div class="verse indent0">for God for country and for Yale</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">above his blond determined head</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the sacred flag of truth unfurled,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in the bright heyday of his youth</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the upper class American</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">unsullied stands, before the world:</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with manly heart and conscience free,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">upon the front steps of her home</div> + <div class="verse indent0">by the high minded pure young girl</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">much kissed, by loving relatives</div> + <div class="verse indent0">well fed, and fully photographed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the son of man goes forth to war</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with trumpets clap and syphilis</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + IX + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">little ladies more</div> + <div class="verse indent0">than dead exactly dance</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in my head, precisely</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dance where danced la guerre.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Mimi a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">la voix fragile</div> + <div class="verse indent0">qui chatouille Des</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Italiens</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the putain with the ivory throat</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Marie Louise Lallemand</div> + <div class="verse indent0">n’es-ce pas que je suis belle</div> + <div class="verse indent0">cheri? les anglais m’aiment</div> + <div class="verse indent0">tous, les americains</div> + <div class="verse indent0">aussi. . . .“bon dos, bon cul de Paris” (Marie</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Vierge</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Priez</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Pour</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Nous)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">with the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">long lips of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Lucienne which dangle</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the old men and hot</div> + <div class="verse indent0">men se promenent</div> + <div class="verse indent0">doucement le soir(ladies</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">accurately dead les anglais</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sont gentils et les americains</div> + <div class="verse indent0">aussi, ils payent bien les americains dance</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">exactly in my brain voulez</div> + <div class="verse indent0">vous coucher avec</div> + <div class="verse indent0">moi? Non? pourquoi?</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</span> </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">ladies skilfully</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dead precisely dance</div> + <div class="verse indent0">where has danced la</div> + <div class="verse indent0">guerre j’m’appelle</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Manon, cinq rue Henri Mounier</div> + <div class="verse indent0">voulez vous coucher avec moi?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">te ferai Mimi</div> + <div class="verse indent0">te ferai Minette,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dead exactly dance</div> + <div class="verse indent0">si vous voulez</div> + <div class="verse indent0">chatouiller</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mon lezard ladies suddenly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">j’m’en fout de negres</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent17">(in the twilight of Paris</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Marie Louise with queenly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">legs cinq rue Henri</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Mounier a little love</div> + <div class="verse indent0">begs, Mimi with the body</div> + <div class="verse indent0">like une boite a joujoux, want nice sleep?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">toutes les petites femmes exactes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">qui dansent toujours in my</div> + <div class="verse indent0">head dis-donc,Paris</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">ta gorge mysterieuse</div> + <div class="verse indent0">pourquoi se promene-t-elle, pourquoi</div> + <div class="verse indent0">eclate ta voix</div> + <div class="verse indent0">fragile couleur de pivoine?)</div> + <div class="verse indent22">with the</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">long lips of Lucienne which</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dangle the old men and hot men</div> + <div class="verse indent0">precisely dance in my head</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ladies carefully dead</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + X + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">16 heures</div> + <div class="verse indent0">l’Etoile</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the communists have fine Eyes</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">some are young some old none</div> + <div class="verse indent0">look alike the flics rush</div> + <div class="verse indent0">batter the crowd sprawls collapses</div> + <div class="verse indent0">singing knocked down trampled the kicked by</div> + <div class="verse indent0">flics rush(the</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Flics, tidiyum, are</div> + <div class="verse indent0">very tidiyum reassuringly similar,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">they all have very tidiyum</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mustaches, and very</div> + <div class="verse indent0">tidiyum chins, and just above</div> + <div class="verse indent0">their very tidiyum ears their</div> + <div class="verse indent0">very tidiyum necks begin)</div> + <div class="verse indent26">let us add</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">that there are 50(fifty)flics for every</div> + <div class="verse indent0">one(1)communist and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">all the flics are very organically</div> + <div class="verse indent0">arranged</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and their nucleus(composed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of captains in freshly-creased</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-uniforms with only-just-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">shined buttons</div> + <div class="verse indent0">tidiyum</div> + <div class="verse indent0">before and behind)has a nucleolus:</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the Prefect of Police</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(a dapper derbied</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</span> <div class="verse indent0">creature, swaggers daintily</div> + <div class="verse indent0">twiddling</div> + <div class="verse indent0">his tiny cane</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and, mazurkas about tweak-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ing his wing collar pecking at his im</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">-peccable cravat directing being</div> + <div class="verse indent0">shooting his cuffs</div> + <div class="verse indent0">saluted everywhere saluting</div> + <div class="verse indent0">reviewing processions of minions</div> + <div class="verse indent0">tappingpeopleontheback</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“allezcirculez”)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—my he’s brave. . . .</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">communists pick</div> + <div class="verse indent0">up themselves friends</div> + <div class="verse indent0">& their hats legs &</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">arms brush dirt coats</div> + <div class="verse indent0">smile looking hands</div> + <div class="verse indent0">spit blood teeth</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the Communists have(very)fine eyes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(which stroll hither and thither through the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">evening in bruised narrow questioning faces)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">my sweet old etcetera</div> + <div class="verse indent0">aunt lucy during the recent</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">war could and what</div> + <div class="verse indent0">is more did tell you just</div> + <div class="verse indent0">what everybody was fighting</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">for,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my sister</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">isabel created hundreds</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hundreds)of socks not to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">etcetera wristers etcetera, my</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mother hoped that</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i would die etcetera</div> + <div class="verse indent0">bravely of course my father used</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to become hoarse talking about how it was</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a privilege and if only he</div> + <div class="verse indent0">could meanwhile my</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">self etcetera lay quietly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in the deep mud et</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">cetera</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(dreaming,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">et</div> + <div class="verse indent2">cetera, of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Your smile</div> + <div class="verse indent0">eyes knees and of your Etcetera)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</span></p> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THREE"> + THREE + + + </h2> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</span></p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</span></p> +<div class="chapter"> + <p class="rmr"> + I + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">now that fierce few</div> + <div class="verse indent0">flowers(stealthily)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in the alive west</div> + <div class="verse indent0">begin</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">requiescat this six</div> + <div class="verse indent0">feet of Breton big good</div> + <div class="verse indent0">body, which terminated</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in fists hair wood</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">erect cursing hatless who</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(bent by wind)slammed hard—</div> + <div class="verse indent0">over the tiller;clattered</div> + <div class="verse indent0">forward skidding in outrageous</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">sabots language trickling</div> + <div class="verse indent0">pried his black</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mouth with fat jibing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">lips,</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">once upon a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(that is</div> + <div class="verse indent0">over: and the sea heaving</div> + <div class="verse indent0">indolent colourless forgets)time</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Requiescat.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">carry</div> + <div class="verse indent0">carefully the blessed large silent him</div> + <div class="verse indent0">into nibbling final worms</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + II + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Among</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent5">these</div> + <div class="verse indent10">red pieces of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">day(against which and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">quite silently hills</div> + <div class="verse indent0">made of blueandgreen paper</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">scorchbend ingthem</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-selves-U</div> + <div class="verse indent0">pcurv E,into:</div> + <div class="verse indent13">anguish(clim</div> + <div class="verse indent0">b)ing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">s-p-i-r-a-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">l</div> + <div class="verse indent1">and,disappear)</div> + <div class="verse indent15">Satanic and blasé</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a black goat lookingly wanders</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">There is nothing left of the world but</div> + <div class="verse indent0">into this noth</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ing il trene per</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Roma si-gnori?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">jerk.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ilyr,ushes</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + III + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">it is winter a moon in the afternoon</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and warm air turning into January darkness up</div> + <div class="verse indent0">through which sprouting gently, the cathedral</div> + <div class="verse indent0">leans its dreamy spine against thick sunset</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i perceive in front of our lady a ring of people</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a brittle swoon of centrifugally expecting</div> + <div class="verse indent0">faces clumsily which devours a man, three cats,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">five white mice, and a baboon.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O a monkey with a sharp face waddling carefully</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the length of this padded pole;a monkey attached</div> + <div class="verse indent0">by a chain securely to this always talking</div> + <div class="verse indent0">individual, mysterious witty hatless.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Cats which move smoothly from neck to neck of bottles,cats</div> + <div class="verse indent0">smoothly willowing out and in between bottles,who step smoothly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and rapidly along this pole over five squirming</div> + <div class="verse indent0">mice; or leap through hoops of fire,creating smoothness.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">People stare, the drunker applaud</div> + <div class="verse indent0">while twilight takes the sting out of the vermilion</div> + <div class="verse indent0">jacket of nodding hairy Jaqueline who is given a mouse</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to hold lovingly,</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">our lady what do you think of this? Do your proud fingers and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">your arms tremble remembering something fragile</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and which had been presented unto you by a mystery?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">. . . the cathedral recedes into weather without answering</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + IV + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">impossibly</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">motivated by midnight</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the flyspecked abdominous female</div> + <div class="verse indent0">indubitably tellurian</div> + <div class="verse indent0">strolls</div> + <div class="verse indent5">emitting minute grins</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">each an intaglio.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Nothing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">has also carved upon her much</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">too white forehead a pair of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">eyes which mutter thickly(as one merely</div> + <div class="verse indent0">terriculous American an instant doubts</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the authenticity</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">of these antiquities—relaxing</div> + <div class="verse indent23">hurries</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">elsewhere;to blow</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">incredible wampum</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + V + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">inthe,exquisite;</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">morning sure lyHer eye s exactly sit,ata little roundtable</div> + <div class="verse indent0">among otherlittle roundtables Her,eyes count slow(ly</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">obstre poroustimidi ties surElyfl)oat iNg,the</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">ofpieces ofof sunligh tof fa l l in gof throughof treesOf.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(Fields Elysian</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the like,a)slEEping neck a breathing a ,lies</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(slo wlythe wom an pa)ris her</div> + <div class="verse indent0">flesh:wakes</div> + <div class="verse indent12">in little streets</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">while exactlygir lisHlegs;play;ing;nake;D</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">chairs wait under the trees</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Fields slowly Elysian in</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a firmcool-Ness taxis,s.QuirM</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and, b etw ee nch air st ott er s thesillyold</div> + <div class="verse indent0">WomanSellingBaloonS</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">In theex qui site</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">morning,</div> + <div class="verse indent8">her sureLyeye s sit-ex actly her sitat a surely!little,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">roundtable amongother;littleexactly round. tables,</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Her</div> + <div class="verse indent4">.eyes</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + VI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">candles and</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Here Comes a glass box</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which the exhumed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hand of Saint Ignatz miraculously</div> + <div class="verse indent0">inhabits. (people tumble</div> + <div class="verse indent0">down. people crumble to their</div> + <div class="verse indent0">knees. people</div> + <div class="verse indent0">begin crossing people)and</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">hErE cOmEs a glass box:</div> + <div class="verse indent0">surrounded by priests</div> + <div class="verse indent0">moving in fifty colours</div> + <div class="verse indent0">, sensuously</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(the crowd</div> + <div class="verse indent0">howls faintly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">blubbering pointing</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">see</div> + <div class="verse indent0">yes)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">It</div> + <div class="verse indent0">here</div> + <div class="verse indent0">comes</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">A Glass</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Box and incense with</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and oh sunlight—</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the crash of the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">colours(of the oh</div> + <div class="verse indent0">silently</div> + <div class="verse indent0">striding)priests-and-</div> + <div class="verse indent0">slowly,al,ways;procession:and</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</span> </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Enters</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">this</div> + <div class="verse indent4">church.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">toward which The</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Expectant stutter(upon artificial limbs,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with faces like defunct geraniums)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + VII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Paris;this April sunset completely utters</div> + <div class="verse indent0">utters serenely silently a cathedral</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">before whose upward lean magnificent face</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the streets turn young with rain,</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">spiral acres of bloated rose</div> + <div class="verse indent0">coiled within cobalt miles of sky</div> + <div class="verse indent0">yield to and heed</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the mauve</div> + <div class="verse indent10">of twilight(who slenderly descends,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">daintily carrying in her eyes the dangerous first stars)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">people move love hurry in a gently</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">arriving gloom and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">see!(the new moon</div> + <div class="verse indent0">fills abruptly with sudden silver</div> + <div class="verse indent0">these torn pockets of lame and begging colour)while</div> + <div class="verse indent0">there and here the lithe indolent prostitute</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Night,argues</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">with certain houses</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + VIII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">will out of the kindness of their hearts a few philosophers tell me</div> + <div class="verse indent0">what am i doing on top of this hill at Calchidas, in the sunlight?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">down ever so far on the beach below me a little girl in white spins,tumbles;rolling in sand.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">across this water,crowding tints:browns and whites showing,the dotting millions of windows of thousands of houses—Lisboa. Like the crackle of a typewriter,in the afternoon sky.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">goats and sheep are driven by somebody along a curve of road which eats into a pink cliff back and up leaning out of yellowgreen water.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">they are building a house down there by the sea,in the afternoon.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">rapidly a reddish ant travels my fifth finger.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a bird chirps in a tree,somewhere nowhere</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and a little girl in white is tumbling</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in sand</div> + <div class="verse indent6">Clouds over</div> + <div class="verse indent0">me are like bridegrooms</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Naked and luminous</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent20">(here the absurd I; life, to peer and wear clothes. i am altogether foolish, i suddenly make a fist out of ten fingers</div> + <div class="verse indent0">voices rise from down ever so far—</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hush.</div> + <div class="verse indent6">Sunlight,</div> + <div class="verse indent13">there are old men behind me I tell</div> + <div class="verse indent6">you;several,incredible,sleepy</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + IX + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">but observe;although</div> + <div class="verse indent0">once is never the beginning of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">enough, is it(i do not pretend</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to know the reason any more than.)But look:up—</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">raising, hoisting, a little</div> + <div class="verse indent0">perhaps that and this, deftly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">propping on smallest hands</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the slim hinging you</div> + <div class="verse indent17">—because</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it’s five o’clock</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and these(i notice)trees winterbrief surly old</div> + <div class="verse indent0">gurgle a nonsense of sparrows, the cathedral</div> + <div class="verse indent0">shudders blackening;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the sky is washed with tone</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">now for a moon</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to squat in first darkness</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—a little moon thinner than</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">memory</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">faint</div> + <div class="verse indent0">-er</div> + <div class="verse indent4">than all the whys</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which lurk</div> + <div class="verse indent0">between your naked shoulderblades.—Here</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">comes a stout fellow in a blouse</div> + <div class="verse indent0">just outside this window, touching the glass</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">boxes one by one with his magic</div> + <div class="verse indent0">stick(in which a willing</div> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</span> <div class="verse indent0">bulb of flame bubbles)</div> + <div class="verse indent18">see</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">here and here they explode</div> + <div class="verse indent0">silently into crocuses of brightness. (That is enough</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of life, for you. I understand. Once</div> + <div class="verse indent0">again. . . .)sliding</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a little downward,embrace me with your body’s suddenly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">curving entire warm questions</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + X + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">sunlight was over</div> + <div class="verse indent0">our mouths fears hearts lungs arms hopes feet hands</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">under us the unspeaking Mediterranean bluer</div> + <div class="verse indent0">than we had imagined</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a few cries drifting through</div> + <div class="verse indent0">high air</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a sail a fishing boat somebody an invisible spectator,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">maybe certain nobodies laughing faintly</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">playing moving far below us</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">perhaps one villa caught like pieces</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of a kite in the trees, here</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and here reflecting</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sunlight</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(everywhere sunlight keen complete</div> + <div class="verse indent0">silent</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and everywhere you your kisses your flesh mind breathing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">beside under around myself)</div> + <div class="verse indent231">by and by</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a fat colour reared itself against the sky and the sea</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">. . . finally your eyes knew</div> + <div class="verse indent0">me, we smiled to each other, releasing lay, watching</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(sprawling, in</div> + <div class="verse indent0">grass upon a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">cliff) what had been something</div> + <div class="verse indent0">else carefully slowly fatally turning into ourselves . . .</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">while in the very middle of fire all</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the world becoming bright and little melted.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</span></p> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="FOUR"> + FOUR + </h2> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</span></p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</span></p> +<div class="chapter"> + <p class="rmr"> + I + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the moon looked into my window</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it touched me with its small hands</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and with curling infantile</div> + <div class="verse indent0">fingers it understood my eyes cheeks mouth</div> + <div class="verse indent0">its hands(slipping)felt of my necktie wandered</div> + <div class="verse indent0">against my shirt and into my body the</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sharp things fingered tinily my heart life</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the little hands withdrew, jerkily, themselves</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">quietly they began playing with a button</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the moon smiled she</div> + <div class="verse indent0">let go my vest and crept</div> + <div class="verse indent0">through the window</div> + <div class="verse indent0">she did not fall</div> + <div class="verse indent0">she went creeping along the air</div> + <div class="verse indent25">over houses</div> + <div class="verse indent35">roofs</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">And out of the east toward</div> + <div class="verse indent0">her a fragile light bent gatheringly</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + II + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">if being morticed with a dream</div> + <div class="verse indent0">myself speaks</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(whispering,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">suggesting that our souls</div> + <div class="verse indent0">inhabit whatever is between them)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">knowing my lips hands the way i move</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my habits laughter</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i say</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you will perhaps pardon,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">possibly you will comprehend. and how</div> + <div class="verse indent0">this has arrived your mind may guess</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">if at sunset</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it should, leaning against me, smile;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">or(between dawn and twilight)giving</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">your eyes, present me also</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with the terror of shrines</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">which noone has suspected(but</div> + <div class="verse indent0">wherein silently</div> + <div class="verse indent0">always</div> + <div class="verse indent0">are kneeling the various deaths</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which are your lover lady:together with what keen</div> + <div class="verse indent0">innumerable lives he has not lived.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + III + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">here’s a little mouse)and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">what does he think about, i</div> + <div class="verse indent0">wonder as over this</div> + <div class="verse indent0">floor(quietly with</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">bright eyes)drifts(nobody</div> + <div class="verse indent0">can tell because</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Nobody knows, or why</div> + <div class="verse indent0">jerks Here &, here,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">gr(oo)ving the room’s Silence)this like</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a littlest</div> + <div class="verse indent0">poem a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(with wee ears and see?</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">tail frisks)</div> + <div class="verse indent16">(gonE)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“mouse”,</div> + <div class="verse indent8">We are not the same you and</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i, since here’s a little he</div> + <div class="verse indent0">or is</div> + <div class="verse indent0">it It</div> + <div class="verse indent0">? (or was something we saw in the mirror)?</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">therefore we’ll kiss;for maybe</div> + <div class="verse indent0">what was Disappeared</div> + <div class="verse indent0">into ourselves</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who (look). ,startled</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + IV + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">but if i should say</div> + <div class="verse indent0">goodmorning trouble adds</div> + <div class="verse indent0">up all sorts of quickly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">things on the slate of that</div> + <div class="verse indent0">nigger’s</div> + <div class="verse indent0">face(but</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">If i should say thankyouverymuch</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">mr rosenbloom picks strawberries</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with beringed hands)but if</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i Should say solong my</div> + <div class="verse indent0">tailor</div> + <div class="verse indent0">chuckles</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">like a woman in a dream(but if i</div> + <div class="verse indent0">should say</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Now the all saucers</div> + <div class="verse indent0">but cups if begin to spoons dance every-</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">should where say over the damned table and we</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hold lips Eyes everything</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hands you know what</div> + <div class="verse indent0">happens)but if i should,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Say,</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + V + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">in spite of everything</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which breathes and moves, since Doom</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(with white longest hands</div> + <div class="verse indent0">neatening each crease)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">will smooth entirely our minds</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—before leaving my room</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i turn, and(stooping</div> + <div class="verse indent0">through the morning)kiss</div> + <div class="verse indent0">this pillow, dear</div> + <div class="verse indent0">where our heads lived and were.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + VI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">you are not going to, dear. You are not going to and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i but that doesn’t in the least matter. The big</div> + <div class="verse indent0">fear Who held us deeply in His fist is</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">no longer, can you imagine it</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i can’t which doesn’t matter</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and what does is possibly this dear, that we may resume</div> + <div class="verse indent0">impact with the inutile collide</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">once more with the imaginable,love,and eat sunlight(do</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you believe it? i begin to and that doesn’t matter)which</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i suggest teach us a new terror always</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which shall brighten</div> + <div class="verse indent0">carefully these things we consider life.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Dear i put my eyes into you but that doesn’t matter</div> + <div class="verse indent0">further than of old</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">because you fooled the doctors,i touch you with hopesand</div> + <div class="verse indent0">words and with so and so: we are together, we will</div> + <div class="verse indent0">kiss or smile or move. It’s different too isn’t it</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">different dear from moving as we, you</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and i,used to move when i thought you were going to(but</div> + <div class="verse indent0">that doesn’t matter)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">when you thought you were going to America.</div> + <div class="verse indent37">Then</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">moving was a matter of not keeping still;we were</div> + <div class="verse indent0">two alert lice in the blond hair of nothing</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + VII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">since feeling is first</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who pays any attention</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to the syntax of things</div> + <div class="verse indent0">will never wholly kiss you;</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">wholly to be a fool</div> + <div class="verse indent0">while Spring is in the world</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">my blood approves,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and kisses are a better fate</div> + <div class="verse indent0">than wisdom</div> + <div class="verse indent0">lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—the best gesture of my brain is less than</div> + <div class="verse indent0">your eyelids’ flutter which says</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">we are for each other: then</div> + <div class="verse indent0">laugh, leaning back in my arms</div> + <div class="verse indent0">for life’s not a paragraph</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">And death i think is no parenthesis</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + VIII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">some ask praise of their fellows</div> + <div class="verse indent0">but i being otherwise</div> + <div class="verse indent0">made compose curves</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and yellows, angles or silences</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to a less erring end)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">myself is sculptor of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">your body’s idiom:</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the musician of your wrists;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the poet who is afraid</div> + <div class="verse indent0">only to mistranslate</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a rhythm in your hair,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(your fingertips</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the way you move)</div> + <div class="verse indent18">the</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">painter of your voice—</div> + <div class="verse indent0">beyond these elements</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">remarkably nothing is. . . . therefore,lady</div> + <div class="verse indent0">am i content should any</div> + <div class="verse indent0">by me carven thing provoke</div> + <div class="verse indent0">your gesture possibly or</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">any painting(for its own</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">reason)in your lips</div> + <div class="verse indent0">slenderly should create one least smile</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(shyly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">if a poem should lift to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">me the distinct country of your</div> + <div class="verse indent0">eyes, gifted with green twilight)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + IX + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">supposing i dreamed this)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">only imagine, when day has thrilled</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you are a house around which</div> + <div class="verse indent0">i am a wind—</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">your walls will not reckon how</div> + <div class="verse indent0">strangely my life is curved</div> + <div class="verse indent0">since the best he can do</div> + <div class="verse indent0">is to peer through windows, unobserved</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—listen, for(out of all</div> + <div class="verse indent0">things)dream is noone’s fool;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">if this wind who i am prowls</div> + <div class="verse indent0">carefully around this house of you</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">love being such, or such,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the normal corners of your heart</div> + <div class="verse indent0">will never guess how much</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my wonderful jealousy is dark</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">if light should flower:</div> + <div class="verse indent0">or laughing sparkle from</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the shut house(around and around</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which a poor wind will roam</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + X + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">you are like the snow only</div> + <div class="verse indent0">purer fleeter, like the rain</div> + <div class="verse indent0">only sweeter frailer you</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">whom certain</div> + <div class="verse indent0">flowers ressemble but trembling(cowards</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which fear</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to miss within your least gesture the hurting</div> + <div class="verse indent0">skill which lives)and since</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">nothing lingers</div> + <div class="verse indent0">beyond a little instant,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">along with rhyme and with laughter</div> + <div class="verse indent0">O my lady</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(and every brittle marvelous breathing thing)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">since i and you are on our ways to dust</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">of your fragility</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(but chiefly of your smile,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">most suddenly which is</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of love and death a marriage)you give me</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">courage</div> + <div class="verse indent0">so that against myself</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the sharp days slobber in vain:</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Nor am i afraid that</div> + <div class="verse indent0">this, which we call autumn, cleverly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">dies and over the ripe world wanders with</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a near and careful</div> + <div class="verse indent0">smile in his mouth(making</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">everything suddenly old and with his awkward eyes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">pushing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">sleep under and thoroughly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">into all beautiful things)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</span> <div class="verse indent0">winter, whom Spring shall kill</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">because</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you go away i give roses who</div> + <div class="verse indent0">will advise even yourself, lady</div> + <div class="verse indent0">in the most certainly(of what we</div> + <div class="verse indent0">everywhere do not touch)deep</div> + <div class="verse indent0">things;</div> + <div class="verse indent6">remembering ever so</div> + <div class="verse indent0">tinily these, your crisp</div> + <div class="verse indent0">eyes actually shall contain new faeries</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(and if your slim lips are amused, no wisest</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">painter of fragile</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Marys will understand</div> + <div class="verse indent0">how smiling may be made as</div> + <div class="verse indent0">skilfully.) But carry</div> + <div class="verse indent0">also, with that indolent and with</div> + <div class="verse indent0">this flower wholly whom you do</div> + <div class="verse indent0">not ever fear,</div> + <div class="verse indent12">me in your heart</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">softly;not all</div> + <div class="verse indent0">but the beginning</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">of mySelf</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">you being in love</div> + <div class="verse indent0">will tell who softly asks in love,</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">am i separated from your body smile brain hands merely</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to become the jumping puppets of a dream? oh i mean:</div> + <div class="verse indent0">entirely having in my careful how</div> + <div class="verse indent0">careful arms created this at length</div> + <div class="verse indent0">inexcusable, this inexplicable pleasure—you go from several</div> + <div class="verse indent0">persons:believe me that strangers arrive</div> + <div class="verse indent0">when i have kissed you into a memory</div> + <div class="verse indent0">slowly, oh seriously</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—that since and if you disappear</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">solemnly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">myselves</div> + <div class="verse indent0">ask “life, the question how do i drink dream smile</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and how do i prefer this face to another and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">why do i weep eat sleep—what does the whole intend”</div> + <div class="verse indent0">they wonder. ohandthey cry “to be,being,thatiamalive</div> + <div class="verse indent0">this absurd fraction in its lowest terms</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with everything cancelled</div> + <div class="verse indent0">but shadows</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—what does it all come down to? love? Love</div> + <div class="verse indent0">if you like and i like, for the reason that i</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hate people and lean out of this window is love,love</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">that i do not fall into this street is love.”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XIII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Nobody wears a yellow</div> + <div class="verse indent0">flower in his buttonhole</div> + <div class="verse indent0">he is altogether a queer fellow</div> + <div class="verse indent0">as young as he is old</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">when autumn comes,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who twiddles his white thumbs</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and frisks down the boulevards</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">without his coat and hat</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—(and i wonder just why that</div> + <div class="verse indent0">should please him or i wonder what he does)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and why(at the bottom of this trunk,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">under some dirty collars)only a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">moment</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(or</div> + <div class="verse indent0">was it perhaps a year)ago i found staring</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">me in the face a dead yellow small rose</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XIV + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">it is so long since my heart has been with yours</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">shut by our mingling arms through</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a darkness where new lights begin and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">increase,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">since your mind has walked into</div> + <div class="verse indent0">my kiss as a stranger</div> + <div class="verse indent0">into the streets and colours of a town—</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">that i have perhaps forgotten</div> + <div class="verse indent0">how, always(from</div> + <div class="verse indent0">these hurrying crudities</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of blood and flesh)Love</div> + <div class="verse indent0">coins His most gradual gesture,</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and whittles life to eternity</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—after which our separating selves become museums</div> + <div class="verse indent0">filled with skilfully stuffed memories</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XV + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i am a beggar always</div> + <div class="verse indent0">who begs in your mind</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(slightly smiling, patient, unspeaking</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with a sign on his</div> + <div class="verse indent0">breast</div> + <div class="verse indent0">BLIND)yes i</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">am this person of whom somehow</div> + <div class="verse indent0">you are never wholly rid(and who</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">does not ask for more than</div> + <div class="verse indent0">just enough dreams to</div> + <div class="verse indent0">live on)</div> + <div class="verse indent8">after all, kid</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">you might as well</div> + <div class="verse indent0">toss him a few thoughts</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">a little love preferably,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">anything which you can’t</div> + <div class="verse indent0">pass off on other people: for</div> + <div class="verse indent0">instance a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">plugged promise—</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">then he will maybe(hearing something</div> + <div class="verse indent0">fall into his hat)go wandering</div> + <div class="verse indent0">after it with fingers;till having</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">found</div> + <div class="verse indent0">what was thrown away</div> + <div class="verse indent20">himself</div> + <div class="verse indent0">taptaptaps out of your brain, hopes, life</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">to(carefully turning a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">corner)never bother you any more.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XVI + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">if within tonight’s erect</div> + <div class="verse indent0">everywhere of black muscles feels</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a weightless slowness(deftly</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">muting the world’s texture with drifted</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">gifts of featheriest slenderness and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">how gradually which descending are suddenly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">received)or by doomfull connivance</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">accurately thither and hither myself</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">struts unremembered(rememberingly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with in both pockets curled hands moves)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">why then toward morning he is a ghost whom</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">assault these whispering fists of hail</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(and a few windows awaken certain faces</div> + <div class="verse indent0">busily horribly blunder through new light</div> + <div class="verse indent0">hush we are made of the same thing as perhaps</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">nothing, he murmurs carefully lying down)</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + XVII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">how this uncouth enchanted</div> + <div class="verse indent0">person, arising from a</div> + <div class="verse indent0">restaurant, looks breathes or moves</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—climbing(past light after</div> + <div class="verse indent0">light)to turn, disappears</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the very swift and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">invisibly living</div> + <div class="verse indent0">rhythm of your Heart possibly</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">will understand;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">or why(in</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">this most exquisite of cities)all</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of the long night a fragile imitation of</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(perhaps)myself carefully wanders</div> + <div class="verse indent0">streets dark and, deep</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">with rain. . . .</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">(he, slightly whom or</div> + <div class="verse indent0">cautiously this person</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and this imitation resemble,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">descends into the earth with the year</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a cigarette between his ghost-lips</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">gradually)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">remembering badly, softly</div> + <div class="verse indent0">your</div> + <div class="verse indent0">kissed thrice suddenly smile</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + XVIII + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i go to this window</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">just as day dissolves</div> + <div class="verse indent0">when it is twilight(and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">looking up in fear</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">i see the new moon</div> + <div class="verse indent0">thinner than a hair)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">making me feel</div> + <div class="verse indent0">how myself has been coarse and dull</div> + <div class="verse indent0">compared with you, silently who are</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and cling</div> + <div class="verse indent0">to my mind always</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">But now she sharpens and becomes crisper</div> + <div class="verse indent0">until i smile with knowing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">—and all about</div> + <div class="verse indent0">herself</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">the sprouting largest final air</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">plunges</div> + <div class="verse indent6">inward with hurled</div> + <div class="verse indent0">downward thousands of enormous dreams</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_108"></a>[Pg 108]</span></p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_109"></a>[Pg 109]</span></p> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="FIVE"> + FIVE + </h2> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_110"></a>[Pg 110]</span></p> +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_111"></a>[Pg 111]</span></p> +<div class="chapter"> + <p class="rmr"> + I + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">after all white horses are in bed</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">will you walking beside me, my very lady,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">if scarcely the somewhat city</div> + <div class="verse indent0">wiggles in considerable twilight</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">touch (now) with a suddenly unsaid</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">gesture lightly my eyes?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And send life out of me and the night</div> + <div class="verse indent0">absolutely into me. . . . a wise</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and puerile moving of your arm will</div> + <div class="verse indent0">do suddenly that</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent16">will do</div> + <div class="verse indent0">more than heroes beautifully in shrill</div> + <div class="verse indent0">armour colliding on huge blue horses,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and the poets looked at them, and made verses,</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">through the sharp light cryingly as the knights flew.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + II + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">touching you i say (it being Spring</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and night) “let us go a very little beyond</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the last road—there’s something to be found”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">and smiling you answer “everything</div> + <div class="verse indent0">turns into something else, and slips away. . . .</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(these leaves are Thingish with moondrool</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and i’m ever so very little afraid”)</div> + <div class="verse indent36">i say</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“along this particular road the moon if you’ll</div> + <div class="verse indent0">notice follows us like a big yellow dog. You</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">don’t believe? look back. (Along the sand</div> + <div class="verse indent0">behind us, a big yellow dog that’s . . . . now it’s red</div> + <div class="verse indent0">a big red dog that may be owned by who</div> + <div class="verse indent0">knows)</div> + <div class="verse indent6">only turn a little your. so. And</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">there’s the moon,there is something faithful and mad”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + III + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">along the brittle treacherous bright streets</div> + <div class="verse indent0">of memory comes my heart,singing like</div> + <div class="verse indent0">an idiot, whispering like a drunken man</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">who(at a certain corner, suddenly)meets</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the tall policeman of my mind.</div> + <div class="verse indent25">awake</div> + <div class="verse indent0">being not asleep, elsewhere our dreams began</div> + <div class="verse indent0">which now are folded:but the year completes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">his life as a forgotten prisoner</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—“Ici?”—“Ah non, mon cheri; il fait trop froid”—</div> + <div class="verse indent0">they are gone:along these gardens moves a wind bringing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">rain and leaves, filling the air with fear</div> + <div class="verse indent0">and sweetness. . . .pauses. (Halfwhispering. . . .halfsinging</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">stirs the always smiling chevaux de bois)</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">when you were in Paris we met here</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</span></p> + + + <p class="rml"> + IV + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">our touching hearts slenderly comprehend</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(clinging as fingers, loving one another</div> + <div class="verse indent0">gradually into hands) and bend</div> + <div class="verse indent0">into the huge disaster of the year:</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">like this most early single star which tugs</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">weakly at twilight, caught in thickening fear</div> + <div class="verse indent0">our slightly fingering spirits starve and smother;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">until autumn abruptly wholly hugs</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">our dying silent minds, which hand in hand</div> + <div class="verse indent0">at some window try to understand</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the</div> + <div class="verse indent3">(through pale miles of perishing air, haunted</div> + <div class="verse indent0">with huddling infinite wishless melancholy,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">suddenly looming) accurate undaunted</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">moon’s bright third tumbling slowly</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</span></p> + + + <p class="rmr"> + V + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">if i have made,my lady,intricate</div> + <div class="verse indent0">imperfect various things chiefly which wrong</div> + <div class="verse indent0">your eyes (frailer than most deep dreams are frail)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">songs less firm than your body’s whitest song</div> + <div class="verse indent0">upon my mind—if i have failed to snare</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the glance too shy—if through my singing slips</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the very skillful strangeness of your smile</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the keen primeval silence of your hair</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">—let the world say “his most wise music stole</div> + <div class="verse indent0">nothing from death”—</div> + <div class="verse indent21">you only will create</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(who are so perfectly alive)my shame:</div> + <div class="verse indent0">lady through whose profound and fragile lips</div> + <div class="verse indent0">the sweet small clumsy feet of April came</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">into the ragged meadow of my soul.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<div class="tnote"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Transcribers_note"> + Transcriber’s note + </h2> + +<p>Non-standard spelling retained.</p> + +<p>In the original on Page <a href="#Page_46">46</a>, the poem “this evangelist” +is missing a line from the third stanza. 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