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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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noun

One who, or that which, accelerates.

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VII

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E.E. Cummings·1894–1962·surrealism
he waddlingmadam startapstaps. “ready girls”. the unspontaneous streetsmake bright their eyesablind irisher fiddles a scotch jig in a stinkingjoyman bara cockney isbuying whiskies for a turk a waiter intones:bloo-moo-nsirkusrickyplatzburghoppytoad yesmam. the furious taximanp(ee)pson his whistle somebodysays here’s luck somebody else says down the hatchthe nigger smilesthe jew standsbesides his teddy-bears the sailor shuffles thenight with Φυκινγ eyesthe great black preacher gargles jesusthe aesthete indulges his soul for certain things which diedit is eighteen hundredyears. . . .exactly under the windowunder the windowunder the window walk the unburied feet ofthe little ladies more than dead