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Fairly Difficult

I, I, my own gauze phantom am,
My head frothing under my arm,
The buttocks of Venus for my huge davenport.
I orgillous turn, burn, churn,
As his rubbery bosom curds my perspiring arm-
The gust of my ghost, I mean-
And he wears no woman-sick, puce, and oriflammed a brow
That, yes, yes, my hair screamed aloud
Louder than death's orchestra or sirocco.
The urge of the purge of the womb of the worm
I renege in the flail-like failing of
The detumescent sun.
This my crepuscular palimpsest is:
I am so greatly him that lazarhouses and such
Lascivious lodges of the unloved
Peel like pomegranates at my nasal touch
And Balham faints in a scalecophidian void.
To him who broods in the nest of my arches,
Fallen or Charing Cross's, like a big bumbling bird,
Before the metropolitan horde
Funicling darkly lairward
I lay the most holy gifts of my spilt flesh:
Far beyond comprehension of golden asinine error
I raise to the mirror the maggots and lumps of my terror.
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