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Published in 1926 by Boni & Liveright, this book entered the public domain in 2022.

Table of contents

  1. FORWARD
  2. ONE
    1. I FIVE AMERICANS
      1. I LIZ
      2. II MAME
      3. III GERT
      4. IV MARJ
      5. V FRAN
    3. II POEM, OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL
    4. III curtains part)
    5. IV workingman with hand so hairy-sturdy
    6. V yonder deadfromtheheckup graduate of a
    7. VI Jimmie’s got a goil
      goil
      goil,
      Jimmie
    8. VII the waddling
    9. VIII listen my children and you
    10. IX even if all desires things moments be
    11. X death is more than
    12. XI nobody loses all the time
    13. XII now dis “daughter” uv eve(who aint precisely slim)sim
    14. XIII (and i imagine
    15. XIV it really must
    16. XV ITEM
    17. XVI it started when Bill’s chip let on to
    18. XVII IKEY(GOLDBERG)’S WORTH I’M
    19. XVIII why are these pipples taking their hets off?
    20. XIX this young question mark man
    21. XX mr youse needn’t be so spry
    22. XXI i was sitting in mcsorley’s outside it was New York and beauti-
    23. XXII she being Brand
    24. XXIII slighty before the middle of Congressman Pudd
    25. XXIV Dick Mid’s large bluish face without eyebrows
    26. XXV oDE
    27. XXVI on the Madam’s best april the
    28. XXVII (as that named Fred
    29. XXVIII my uncle
    30. XXIX than(by yon sunset’s wintry glow
    31. XXX weazened Irrefutable unastonished
    32. XXXI MEMORABILIA
    33. XXXII a man who had fallen among thieves
    34. XXXIII Babylon slim
    35. XXXIV this evangelist
    36. XXXV (ponder,darling,these busted statues
    37. XXXVI ta
    38. XXXVII poets yeggs and thirsties
    39. XXXVIII Will i ever forget that precarious moment?
    40. XXXIX voices to voices,lip to lip
    41. XL life hurl my
  4. TWO
    1. I the season ’tis,my lovely lambs,
    2. II opening of the chambers close
    3. III “next to of course god america i
    4. IV it’s jolly
    5. V look at this)
    6. VI first Jock he
    7. VII lis
    8. VIII come,gaze with me upon this dome
    9. IX little ladies more
    10. X 16 heures
    11. XI my sweet old etcetera
  6. THREE
    1. I now that fierce few
    2. II Among
      these
      red pieces of
    3. III it is winter a moon in the afternoon
    4. IV impossibly
    5. V inthe,exquisite;
    6. VI candles and
    7. VII Paris;this April sunset completely utters;
    8. VIII will out of the kindness of their hearts a few philosophers tell me
    9. IX but observe;although
    10. X sunlight was over
  8. FOUR
    1. I the moon looked into my window
    2. II if being morticed with a dream
    3. III here’s a little mouse)and
    4. IV but if I should say
    5. V in spite of everything
    6. VI you are not going to,dear. You are not going to and
    7. VII since feeling is first
    8. VIII some ask praise of their fellows
    9. IX supposing i dreamed this)
    10. X you are like the snow only
    11. XI because
    12. XII you being in love
    13. XIII Nobody wears a yellow
    14. XIV it is so long since my heart has been with yours
    15. XV i am a beggar always
    16. XVI if within tonight’s erect
    17. XVII how this uncouth enchanted
    18. XVIII i go to this window
  10. FIVE
    1. I after all white horses are in bed
    2. II touching you I say(it being Spring
    3. III along the brittle treacherous bright streets
    4. IV our touching hearts slenderly comprehend
    5. V if i have made,my lady,intricate