i walked the boulevard | |
i saw a dirty child | |
skating on noisy wheels of joy | |
pathetic dress fluttering | |
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behind her a mothermonster |
with red grumbling face | |
cluttered in pursuit | |
pleasantly elephantine | |
while nearby the father | |
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a thick cheerful man |
with majestic bulbous lips | |
and forlorn piggish hands | |
joked to a girlish whore | |
with busy rythmic mouth | |
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and silly purple eyelids |
of how she was with child |
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Transcribed and formatted for Internet reading, with addition of line numbers, from the 1923 (Thomas Seltzer, Inc.) hardcover edition of Tulips and Chimneys by E.E. Cummings.