Not one croak of anything you know has come from your cat crouch of ages.
I am one of those who know all you know and I keep my questions: I know the answers you hold.
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I shall take the last and the worst.I shall be eaten by gray creepers in a bunkhouse where no runners of the sun come and no dogs live.And yet-of all ‘and yets’ this is the bronze strongest-I shall keep one thing better than all else; there is the blue steel of a great star of…
Napoleon shifted,
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HOKUSAI’S portrait of himself
And his arms and legs. The only facesAre a river and a mountainAnd two laughing farmers.The smile of Hokusaiis under his hat.
Three walls around the town of Tela when I came.
Nobody in the town came out to kiss my feet.I knocked the walls down, killed three thousand soldiers,Took away cattle and sheep, took all the loot in sight,And burned special captives.Some of the soldiers—I cut off hands and feet.Others—I cut off ears and fingers.Some—I put out the eyes.I made a pyramid of heads.I strung heads…