#wellcurb

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Read by the poet: "Memorabilia" by e.e. cummings

stop look &

listen Venezia*: incline thine ear you glassworks of Murano; pause

elevator nel

mezzo del cammin’ that means half- way up the Campanile, believe

thou me cocodrillo** —

mine eyes have seen the glory of

the coming of the Americans particularly the brand of marriageable nymph which is armed with large legs rancid voices Baedekers Mothers and kodaks — by night upon the Riva Schiavoni or in the felicitous vicinity of the de l’Europe Grand and Royal Danielli their numbers

are like unto the stars of Heaven…

i do signore affirm that all gondola signore day below me gondola signore gondola and above me pass loudly and gondola rapidly denizens of Omaha Altoona or what not enthusiastic cohorts from Duluth God only, gondola knows Cincingondolanati i gondola don’t — the substantial dollarbringing virgins “from the Loggia where are we angels by O yes beautiful we now pass through the look girls in the style of that's the foliage what is it didn't Ruskin says about you got the haven’t Marjorie isn't this wellcurb simply darling” — O Education: O thos cook cb- son

(O to be a metope now that triglyph's here)

Source: The Voice of the poet - E. E. Cummings, 1922

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