TO A CORPULENT SINGER
IBulging maturityConstructs an unfair versionOf curves not visibleTo eyes upon the outside face.IIIf a soul is moreSlender than the motives of wind,Flesh provides the necessaryPrivacy, and in a rising voiceThe soul proclaims its gratefulness.IIIWho has watched a bearPawing his idea of a breeze?The audience in this falsely walledRoom is pouncing awkwardlyUpon the small part of a singer’s voice.The actual sounds swing easilyTo eyes and ears beyond the edge of earth.IVAnd if to this meanderingOf metaphysical remarksI should add a faceWhere tragedy experiments with lanternsTo aid a long, sharp nose and wondering lips,And laughter is conscious of beingThe excited, misunderstood child of a soul,The singer would receiveFinal details of her disguise.
IBulging maturityConstructs an unfair versionOf curves not visibleTo eyes upon the outside face.IIIf a soul is moreSlender than the motives of wind,Flesh provides the necessaryPrivacy, and in a rising voiceThe soul proclaims its gratefulness.IIIWho has watched a bearPawing his idea of a breeze?The audience in this falsely walledRoom is pouncing awkwardlyUpon the small part of a singer’s voice.The actual sounds swing easilyTo eyes and ears beyond the edge of earth.IVAnd if to this meanderingOf metaphysical remarksI should add a faceWhere tragedy experiments with lanternsTo aid a long, sharp nose and wondering lips,And laughter is conscious of beingThe excited, misunderstood child of a soul,The singer would receiveFinal details of her disguise.
I
I
Bulging maturityConstructs an unfair versionOf curves not visibleTo eyes upon the outside face.
Bulging maturity
Constructs an unfair version
Of curves not visible
To eyes upon the outside face.
II
II
If a soul is moreSlender than the motives of wind,Flesh provides the necessaryPrivacy, and in a rising voiceThe soul proclaims its gratefulness.
If a soul is more
Slender than the motives of wind,
Flesh provides the necessary
Privacy, and in a rising voice
The soul proclaims its gratefulness.
III
III
Who has watched a bearPawing his idea of a breeze?The audience in this falsely walledRoom is pouncing awkwardlyUpon the small part of a singer’s voice.The actual sounds swing easilyTo eyes and ears beyond the edge of earth.
Who has watched a bear
Pawing his idea of a breeze?
The audience in this falsely walled
Room is pouncing awkwardly
Upon the small part of a singer’s voice.
The actual sounds swing easily
To eyes and ears beyond the edge of earth.
IV
IV
And if to this meanderingOf metaphysical remarksI should add a faceWhere tragedy experiments with lanternsTo aid a long, sharp nose and wondering lips,And laughter is conscious of beingThe excited, misunderstood child of a soul,The singer would receiveFinal details of her disguise.
And if to this meandering
Of metaphysical remarks
I should add a face
Where tragedy experiments with lanterns
To aid a long, sharp nose and wondering lips,
And laughter is conscious of being
The excited, misunderstood child of a soul,
The singer would receive
Final details of her disguise.