LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664145017

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       BABY

       NIGHTMARE AND SOMETHING DELICATE

       REGARDING AN AMERICAN VILLAGE

       THREE PORTRAITS

       DEFINITIONS

       TO A CORPULENT SINGER

       TOPSY-TURVY

       REVILE THE ACROBAT

       COMPULSORY TASKS

       RHYMED CONVERSATION WITH MONEY

       HIGHLY DELIBERATE POEM

       POEM

       REALISTIC CREATOR

       CITY STREETS

       DECADENT CRY [A]

       GIRL

       COLOR AND A WOMAN

       RELUCTANT LADY

       PSYCHOLOGY FROM MARS

       TO TIME

       DECADENT DUET

       POEM TO A POLICEMAN

       INTIMATE SCENE

       NEW YORK CITY

       WE WANT LYRICS

       A VISITOR FROM MARS SMILES

       SURPRISE

BABY

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      The blue beginning of your eyes

      Condenses the sprawling and assured

      Blue with which the sky retreats

      From those obscene confessions known as days.

      2

      Again, your battling mites of blue

      Try to stop the revolving monster of life

      And find the indelible persuasiveness

      Of single forms within the circling blur.

      Sundered bits of a soul

      Astonished at their shrunken estate,

      They are not sure that they have still survived,

      And plead for the conviction of sight.

      3

      But when they recollect

      The hugely placid manners

      Of their life, before the earthly exile

      Made them small and fastened

      To one pathetic puzzle,

      Their blue reverts to swelling reveries

      Whose outward circles spurn the curtained jail.

      4

      Upon your softly incomplete

      Face, where germs of devils stir in curves

      That tremble into questioning symmetries,

      A thrust of darkness sometimes interferes

      With secret, virgin places underneath

      Your eyes and where your leaf-thin nostrils pause.

      This darkness bends with helpless messages,

      Like history admonishing a world

      Personified in one, composite face.

NIGHTMARE AND SOMETHING DELICATE

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      You mutter, with your face

      Pleading for more room because

      It has scanned a panorama:

      You mutter, with every difference

      On your face an error in size

      Mesmerized by the sight of a sky-line:

      “Life is a nightmare and something delicate.”

      Lady, they have made a world for you,

      And if you dare to leave it

      They will flagellate you

      With the bones of dead men’s thoughts,

      And five senses, five termagants

      Snapping at the uneasy mind.

      “No, five riotous flirts,”

      You say, “and each one has

      A thick blandishment to master the mind.”

      Yes, lady, through the bold disarrangement of words

      Life acquires with great foresight

      An interesting nervousness.

      But

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