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To you particularly, and to all the VolsciansGreat hurt and mischief.Tired.Subterrene laughter synchronousWith silence from the sacred woodAnd bubbling of the uninspiredMephitic river.MisunderstoodThe accents of the now retiredProfession of the calamus.Tortured.When the bridegroom smoothed his hairThere was blood upon the bed.Morning was already late.Children singing in the orchard(Io Hymen, Hymenæe)Succuba eviscerate.Tortuous.By arrangement with PerseusThe fooled resentment of the dragonSailing before the wind at dawn.Golden apocalypse. IndignantAt the cheap extinction of his taking-off.Now lies he thereTip to tip washed beneath Charles’ Wagon.

To you particularly, and to all the VolsciansGreat hurt and mischief.Tired.Subterrene laughter synchronousWith silence from the sacred woodAnd bubbling of the uninspiredMephitic river.MisunderstoodThe accents of the now retiredProfession of the calamus.Tortured.When the bridegroom smoothed his hairThere was blood upon the bed.Morning was already late.Children singing in the orchard(Io Hymen, Hymenæe)Succuba eviscerate.Tortuous.By arrangement with PerseusThe fooled resentment of the dragonSailing before the wind at dawn.Golden apocalypse. IndignantAt the cheap extinction of his taking-off.Now lies he thereTip to tip washed beneath Charles’ Wagon.

To you particularly, and to all the VolsciansGreat hurt and mischief.

To you particularly, and to all the Volscians

Great hurt and mischief.

Tired.Subterrene laughter synchronousWith silence from the sacred woodAnd bubbling of the uninspiredMephitic river.

Tired.

Subterrene laughter synchronous

With silence from the sacred wood

And bubbling of the uninspired

Mephitic river.

MisunderstoodThe accents of the now retiredProfession of the calamus.

Misunderstood

The accents of the now retired

Profession of the calamus.

Tortured.When the bridegroom smoothed his hairThere was blood upon the bed.Morning was already late.Children singing in the orchard(Io Hymen, Hymenæe)Succuba eviscerate.

Tortured.

When the bridegroom smoothed his hair

There was blood upon the bed.

Morning was already late.

Children singing in the orchard

(Io Hymen, Hymenæe)

Succuba eviscerate.

Tortuous.By arrangement with PerseusThe fooled resentment of the dragonSailing before the wind at dawn.Golden apocalypse. IndignantAt the cheap extinction of his taking-off.Now lies he thereTip to tip washed beneath Charles’ Wagon.

Tortuous.

By arrangement with Perseus

The fooled resentment of the dragon

Sailing before the wind at dawn.

Golden apocalypse. Indignant

At the cheap extinction of his taking-off.

Now lies he there

Tip to tip washed beneath Charles’ Wagon.


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