The Sardonic Arm. Maxwell Bodenheim

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664187000

Table of Contents

       I WALK UPON A STREET

       THE INCURABLE MYSTIC ANSWERS WESTERN AMBITIONS

       PLATONIC NARRATIVE

       PORTRAITS

       I.

       II.

       III.

       IV.

       V.

       VI.

       VII.

       NEGRO CRIMINAL

       SHORT STORY IN SONNET FORM

       FEMININE TALK

       THE SWORD CONVERSES WITH A PHILOSOPHER

       CAPTAIN SIMMONS

       MORE ABOUT CAPTAIN SIMMONS

       CAPTAIN SIMMONS’ WIFE

       NORTH CLARK STREET, CHICAGO

       I.

       II.

       III.

       LANDSCAPE

       COUNTRY GIRL

       NONDESCRIPT TYPIST

       CONCERNING EMOTIONS

       METAPHYSICAL ELIZABETH

       DESCRIPTION AND EXHORTATION

       INEVITABLE

       THE NEGROES WHO TURNED WHITE

       EXPRESSIONS ON A CHILD’S FACE

       PSYCHIC CLOWNS

       DEAR MINNA

       VILLAGE CLERK

       REALISM

       AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE SHOW

I WALK UPON A STREET

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      Must I see a gutter

       In which the hurried machination

       Of water carries bits of apple peeling

       To some profound, obscure intelligence?

       And if the gutter is to me

       Merely the masterful travel of brown

       Speeding with odds and ends of red,

       To lend importance to a dream,

       Will this belief decrease my size

       When death reproves my inefficient limbs?

      I walk upon a street

       Where trite deceptions glide

       Ceaselessly.

       Upon this street the spasmodic revolt

       Of color refuses to join

       The orderly, substantial lie.

       Scattered anarchists of color,

       Thin and incorrupt,

       Contend against the ponderous devices

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