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THE ARTIST. For FRIEDA I I know that Earth is false and Hell And Heaven to man are deaf and dumb, too. I know what last dim oracle Every Panurge is bound to come to. I find more mental bread and cheese In bounty of one brandy bottle Than in all books Averrhoes Once built about his Aristotle. II The babble of my slut, I swear Gives joy and certitudes intenser Than all the wit of a Voltaire And all the science of a Spencer. My poppy-pipeits shows surpass! More and more beautiful and brainier Than all the lumps of Pheidias And all the daubs of de…
1939 · PDF PAGE 9
… will do for the cop, If you say it quiet and slow, boys. Why the devil should anyone stop, When truly rural will do for the cop? I dknow f t struck you, i shtruck me Thwas somethin wrong with the pheasant. Say, how would a little drink, maybe Youknow, void anthing npleasant? Say, doctor, dyou preschribe it, shee? Wdy think, lil drink, maybe? Fence o th Realm Act, Im no fool, All tha, Thas ri, damnation! Member, m I wazza boy a school, A-Thanks, Ol top, jus trench ration Zherooverra topsh my rule Member, n I w…
1939 · PDF PAGE 5
…imbed, In hashish and cocaine. Though death should hale us by the scruff Of neck tos mouldy portal, To-night let us get drunk enough To know we are immortal!
1939 · PDF PAGE 7
…t my love cannot gnaw with insatiate tooth: I will wring forth the Truth from the lies as I once found the lies in the Truth. Astarte, I know thee for rotten as others have seen thee for pure; I tear off the mask that smiled false on the slaves who would have them endure. But Thou and Thy masks are but one, Thy corruption the Essence of Thee, It is all of the nature of things, their virtue whereby they may be. So therefore I hail Thee divine, All-one with the substance of Truth; Mine age holds thee naked, the hem of whose garment bewildered my …
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
…m of the functions of being and thought. Still as I sit, and destroy all possible trace of the past, All germ of the future, nor joy nor knowledge alive at the last, It is vain, for the Silence is dowered with a nature, the seed of a name: Necessity, fearfully flowered with the blossom of possible Aim. I am Necessity? Scry Necessity mother of Fate! And Fate determines me I; and I have the Will to create. Vast is the sphere, but it turns on itself like the prettiest star, And I am the looby that learns that all things equally are. Inscrutable …