1914 · PDF PAGE 2
Chicago May
…y le carncaty requested to retin the same under lek and bey, aad a aowise to pact with it vail the year 1964 1914 PRIVATELY PRINTED Prke FIVE GUINEAS
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Chicago May
…She went to a Levantine Jew. Her bright piastres hire His sordid service; to her stew Behold the wretch retire! A monster, after four or five Months, came ; aborted, but alive. ‘The eunuch of a childless Turk ‘Was bribed by the head wife— Oh, substituted wage for work I— To buy a baby life. ‘The best the mean slave could procure ‘Was this—thrown out on some manure. He took it to the harem, told The tale; it wheezed the sot Whose palsied eyes with rapture rolled At hearing he had got In his old age (his youth was wild ) A real live beautiful mal…
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1914 · PDF PAGE 15
Chicago May
…had twopence, you should have it, sure; And I would flee, on hygienic grounds, But as things are, I am extremely poor; T owe a matter of five thousand pounds; ‘And as I have a girl to help, here goes! I cannot both help her, and help my nose. God ! God! God! God! is there no scavenger To cart this nastiness? Or can there be No sewer fit to suck the corpse of her Into the great, all-purifying sea? Her little hand would rather, I opine, The multitudinous seas incacadine! xv If men could hear me, they would smile and say : How this young satirist …
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1914 · PDF PAGE 12
Chicago May
CHICAGO MAY XI ‘She never lets me from her sight an hour. On one excuse, five minutes and no more! ‘And then—even then !—she fears to lose her power. T hear her heavy breathing at the door: She listens. “What's he doing?” One confesses That one must leave you to a pair of guesses. r, she will send me out, some time she feels She is safe, and when my back is turned, she runs Through all my pockets eagerly, and steals Each scrap of writing. She was human once : Her thirty years of whoring have snowed under All traces of it; and, by God, no wonder…
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1914 · PDF PAGE 8
Chicago May
…ar, and his Chri “And am I really all your very own “And do you love me for myself alone? “And does my darling love his little girl?” Of five and forty years, and fifteen stone| “My love!” “My dovel” “My honey-bee!” “My pearl!” O it were better to leave well alone! Without the words, I might confront the suet ; With them, how is it possible to do it?
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