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BY DON MARQUIS
CONTENTS
Vibrations
Ballads of Understanding
Concentration
Soul Mates
A Spiritual Dialogue
Mamma Is So Mid-Victorian
Hermione on Superficiality
On Being Other-Worldly
Sympathy
Twilight Sleep
Intuition
Stimulating Influences
Politics
HERMIONE
PROEM
VIBRATIONS
Oh! to be understood!
The idea!
Look at me!
Behold, I am founding a New Movement!
Observe me. . . . I am in Revolt!
I revolt!
Now persecute me, persecute me, damn you,
persecute me, curse you, persecute me!
Philistine,
Bourgeois,
Slave,
Serf,
Capitalist,
Respectabilities that you are,
Persecute me!
Bah!
You ask me, do you, what am I in revolt against?
Against you, fool, dolt, idiot, against you, against
everything!
Against Heavy, Hell and punctuation . . . against
Life, Death, rhyme and rhythm . . .
Persecute me, now, persecute me, curse you,
persecute me!
Slave that you are . . . what do Marriage,
Tooth-brushes, Nail-files, the Decalogue,
Handkerchiefs, Newton's Law of Gravity, Capital,
Barbers, Property, Publishers, Courts, Rhyming
Dictionaries, Clothes, Dollars, mean to Me?
Oh is it a Rajah?
BALLADE OF UNDERSTANDING
CONCENTRATION
SOUL MATES
But if his aura was blue, and her aura was yellow,
then, of course, they would quarrel. That's
what makes so much domestic unhappiness.
What becomes of
People when they die?
I used to ask when I was a little child,
And now even since
I am grown up I am not sure that I know!
A SPIRITUAL DIALOGUE
MAMA IS SO MID-VICTORIAN
She is so Mid-Victorian!
But still I did not get it. For it was not words,
it was nothing so articulate as speech, that Voke
Easeley uttered. Nor was it, to my ear, song. And
yet, as I listened, I began to see that a wild rhythm
pervaded the utterance; the Adam;'s apple leapt,
danced, swung round, twinkled, bounded, slid and
leapt again in time with a certain rough barbaric
measure; the sounds themselves were all discords,
but discords with a purpose; discords that took each
other by the hand and kicked and stamped their
brutal way together toward some objective point.
HERMIONE ON SUPERFICIALITY
II
III
VI
Symbolic Garbage Man! Sans rest or pause,
In steadfast faith work for thy Sacred Cause!
Some time, perhaps, all piles of twisted bunk,
All half-baked faddists, heaps of mental junk,
Unto the waiting Scow we'll cart away
Eventual to dump 'em down the bay!
And after one has found one's soul color, one can
find the scent to match that color, if you get what I
mean.
ON BEING OTHER-WORLDLY
With ten Achaian toes . . . and each toe had a separate soul, she said . . .
Her topes that had trod (so she said) the paths of beauty
All, all the little groups from all the brainstorm Slums . . .
* * *
"What?" he said.
SYMPATHY
TWILIGHT SLEEP
INTUITION
STIMULATING INFLUENCES
POLITICS
And she took the notes and put them into shape
for me, but when she sent the report to me the back
of one of the sheets was just full of one sentence
written over and over again. She didn't know she'd
included that sheet, of course.
ENVOY
(I)
[END]
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