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1907 · PDF PAGE 9

Rosa Inferni

…e not discussing metaphysics now. I see below the beautiful low brow (Low too for cunning, like enough !) your lips, A scarlet splash of murder. From them drips This heart’s blood ; you have fed your fill on me. I am exhaust, a pale, wan phantom floating Aimless in air, than which I am thinner. You I see, more brilliant, of that sanguine hue (If anything be true that I can see) Full fed ; you smile, a smile obscenely gloating On the voluptuous wreck your lust hath wrought. See the loose languor of precipitate thought These versicles exhale ! Ho…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 7

Rosa Inferni

…grim and bestial, A purpose sly and deadly, a black shape, A tiger snarling, or a grinning ape Resolved by every devilish device Upon my murder. This I clearly see Now you are—for an hour—away from me. I see it once ; no need to tell me twice ! II OME Yankee yelled—I tag it to a rime— “ You can’t fool all the people all the time.” So he of politics ; so I of love. I am a-many folk (let Buddha prove !) And many a month you fooled the lot of us— Your spell is cracked within the ring ! Behold How Christ with clay worth more than any gold Cleared t…

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