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Somewhat above the level / of the entrailed anger / of the mother / the pockets of the Father / invisible -- depth / -interminable / from whence spring riches / and a sullen / economic / war / houses and food and fire / proceed from them / and over them / he crows continually / Proximity / to Ova's skulled mentality / of money / which magically / is life / He tells her / he is a good Father / his child must obey him / should he choose to do so / he can bestow / upon her / whatever she pray him / Heseems a sovereign / the maximum / of money / A golden octopus / grasping / She is asking / for a sovereign / to buy a circus / universe / Laughing / he gives her a shining coin / She is exalted / in spontaneous knowledge of beauty / She confronts the solution of her destiny / and sudden the potentiality / of achievement / through her august parent / "I will buy ‘all this' my sovereign / The flower seller / is bewildered --
Nurse distrusts / She thrusts / out the open nacreous palm of her hand / that they may understand / "Ga‑aarn / -you little fool / who're you a gittin at?