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the whipper snapper child of the sun / His pert blonde spirit / scoured by the Scandinavian Boreas / His head / an adolescent oval / ostrich egg / The victorious / silly / beauty of his face / awakens to his instincts / A vivacious knick-knack tipped with gold / he puts the world / to the test of intuition / Smiling from ear to ear / Living from other hands to mouth / Holding in immaculate arms / the syphilitic sailor / on his avoided death bunk / or the movie vamp / among the muffled shadows of the shrubberies -- --
Picking lemons in Los Angeles / broke / The education of "Prince Fils à Papa"
How low men die / How women love --
The rituals of Dempsey and Carpentier / Perlun / asks "Do these flappers of the millionaires / think I'm a doll for anyone to pat?"
Poe / a lyric elixir of death / embalms / the spindle spirits of your hour glass loves / on moon spun nights / sets / icicled canopy / for corpses of poesy / with roses and northern lights / Where frozen nightingales in ilix aisles / sing burial rites