know(whereas when i lie down i cough too
much). How did the traffic get so jammed?
bedad it is the famous doctor who inserts
monkeyglands in millionaires a cute idea n’est-ce pas?
(whereas, upon the other hand, myself)but let us next demand
wherefore yon mob
an accident? somebody got concus-
sion of the brain?--Not
a bit of it, my dears merely the prime
minister of Siam in native
costume, who
emerging from a pissoir
enters abruptly Notre Dame(whereas
de gustibus non disputandum est
my lady is tired of That sort of thing
XIX
this young question mark man
question mark
who suffers from
indigestion question
mark is a remarkably
charming person
personally they tell
me as for me
i only knows that
as far as
his pictures goes
he’s a wet dream
by Cézanne
XX
mr youse needn’t be so spry
concernin questions arty
each has his tastes but as for i
i likes a certain party
gimme the he-man’s solid bliss
for youse ideas i’ll match youse
a pretty girl who naked is
is worth a million statues
XXI
i was sitting in mcsorley’s. outside it was New York and beautifully
snowing.
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
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. . . .
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.
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 huge neck around whose unwashed sonorous muscle the
filth of a collar hung gently.
(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,
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