Hopperesque

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Friday, 2 November 2018

The Blue Night


Twilights that are deathless are dark and breathless
Drunk and sedate popping out of a box in his best hat
Don't worry about a hundred dollars give it a raucous
Laugh shrug shoulders then push the fedora back

Up all night writing and slugging it down panoramic
And particular the floor of the blue night is steeped
In ether when does the sound of silvery thunder stifle
The insanity of silence with it's bona-fide guarantee

Kenneth Fearing
excerpt from
The City Takes a Woman
1927

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Louis Stettner

                  http://www.poetryexplorer.net/author.php?aid=FEARING%2C%20KENNETH

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