on the Madam’s best april the
twenty nellie
anyway and
it’s flutters everything
queer;does smells he smiles is
like Out of doors he’s a with
eyes and making twice the a week
you kind of,know(kind well of
A sort of the way he smile but
and her a I mean me a
Irish,cook but well oh don’t
you makes burst want to dear somehow
quickyes when(now,dark dear oh)
the iceman
how,luminously
oh how listens and,expands
my somewherealloverme heart my
the halfgloom coolish
of The what are
parks for wiggle yes has
are leap,which,anyway
give rapid lapfulls of
idiotic big hands
XXVII
(as that named Fred
-someBody:hippopotamus, scratch-
ing,one,knee with,its,
friend observes I
pass Mr Tom Larsen twirls among
pale lips the extinct
cigar)at
which
this(once flinger
of lariats lean exroper of
horned suddenly crashing things)man spits
quickly into the very bright spittoon
XXVIII
my uncle
Daniel fought in the civil
war band and can play the triangle
like the devil)my
uncle Frank has done nothing for many
years but fly kites and
when the
string breaks(or something)my uncle Frank breaks into
tears. my uncle Tom
knits and is a kewpie above the ears(but
my uncle Ed
that’s
dead from the neck
up is lead all over
Brattle Street by a castrated pup
XXIX
than(by yon sunset’s wintry glow
revealed)this tall strong stalwart youth,
what sight shall human optics know
more quite ennobling forsooth?
One wondrous fine sonofabitch
(to all purposes and intents)
in which distinct and rich
portrait should be included,gents
these(by the fire’s ruddy glow
united)not less than sixteen
children and of course you know
their mother,of his heart the queen
--incalculable bliss!
Picture it gents:our hero,Dan
who as you’ve guessed already is
the poorbuthonest workingman
(by that bright flame whose myriad tints
enrich a visage simple,terse,
seated like any king or prince
upon his uncorrupted arse
with all his hearty soul aglow)
his nightly supper sups
it isn’t snowing snow you know
it’s snowing buttercups
XXX
weazened Irrefutable unastonished
two,countenances seated in arranging;sunlight
with-ered unspea-king:tWeNtY,f i n g e r s, large
four gnarled lips totter
Therefore,approaching my twentysix selves
bulging in immortal Spring express a cry of
How do you find the sun,ladies?
(graduallyverygradually “there is not enough
of it” their,hands
minutely
answered
XXXI
MEMORABILIA
stop look &
listen Venezia: incline thine
ear you glassworks
of Murano;
pause
elevator nel
mezzo del cammin’ that means half-
way up the Campanile, believe
thou me cocodrillo--
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