A Patriotic Leading

1874 –

1946

Verse I.
Indeed indeed
Can you see
The stars.
And regularly the precious treasure.
What do we have without measure.
We know.

Verse II.
We suspect the second man.

Verse III
We are worthy of everything that happens.
You mean weddings.
Naturally I mean weddings.

Verse IV
And then we are.
Hail to the nation.

Verse V
Do you think we believe it.

Verse VI
It is that or bust.

Verse VII
We cannot bust.

Verse VIII
Thank you.

Verse IX
Thank you so much.

Published in The Sun, March 31, 1918. This poem is in the public domain.

Much Later

Elephants and birds of beauty and a gold fish. Gold fish or a superstition. They always bring bad luck. He had them and he was not told. Gold fish and he was not old. Gold fish and he was not to scold. Gold fish all told. The result was that the other people never had them and he knows nothing of it.

Gertrude Stein

1926

Tender Buttons [Eggs]

Kind height, kind in the right stomach with a little sudden mill.

Cunning shawl, cunning shawl to be steady.

In white in white handkerchiefs with little dots in a white belt all shadows are singular they are singular and procured and relieved.

No that is not the cows shame and a precocious sound, it is a bite.

Cut up alone the paved way which is harm. Harm is old boat and a likely dash.

Gertrude Stein

2017

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