A crockodile eats a native, who in revenge beats it insensible
with a banana, establishing meanwhile a re- ligious cult based on
consubstantial intangibility.
Personne ne m’aime et j’ai les mains froides.
His Royal Highness said “peek-a-boo” and thirty tame fleas left the
prettily embroidered howdah im- mediately.
Thumbprints of an angel named Frederick found on a lightning-rod,
Boston, Mass.
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.
Meanwhile the tea regressed.
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.
By this time,however,the flight of crows had ceased. I withdrew my
hands from the tennisracket. All was over. One brief convulsive
octopus, and then our hero folded his umbrella.
It seemed too beautiful.
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.
XXXIX
voices to voices, lip to lip
i swear (to noone everyone) constitutes
undying; or whatever this and that petal confutes. . .
to exist being a peculiar form of sleep
what’s beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May
--bring forth your flowers and machinery:sculpture and prose
flowers guess and miss
machinery is the more accurate, yes
it delivers the goods, Heaven knows
(yet are we mindful, though not as yet awake,
of ourselves which shout and cling, being
for a little while and which easily break
in spite of the best overseeing)
i mean that the blond absence of any program
except last and always and first to live
makes unimportant what i and you believe;
not for philosophy does this rose give a damn. . .
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