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THE CANTICLE
with hunx & epheu
or the cap of a kidney
gestures in mutton & chaps
O mourveen avoure & avourie
telephone ache a tea simmering
the Turk moves in a theater
hundred manhood the hunt
& sidle to a shanty the
ankh of the ankylosaur or
the ankle of the ankhorite
steamy in the glue & gravy
pigeons, no concern
of the baronesses
usque ad mortem
the four waders
& culpable happiness
pranqueen pranqueen
mark falling stars a lamphouse
please stop Moore's Melodies
ton & chin daddy alphabet
big beggar for chessmaster
ginargo for mastery over Tammuz
the five marshes & a marchioness
cyropaedia, hytospes
struck out in pencil by
a palace revolution that
defecates on the king
the belle boy of Nabomdo
or the evil Merodach
treckle trickle pharis for
the fake Mary in front of
a pipette of eggs & legs
or the pipette of legs & legs
& the egg magazine
& the 5-egg verse
the egg of the sleeps
as Rev. Jonathan Swift
defecates on the verge
while the boy Jones in
the cage of the lanternhouse
sees jinnies through a telescope
tip tip the Kate tip ad sum
Abraham Lincoln the rainbow my
Tristan sees the rainbow
& the chute of the sawyer to find
the paragraph of the rainbow
Walpurgis-nacht my lads my lads
the magazine-wall & artillery
good red herring in Edinburgh
or the clock or clocktower of Eden
Walpurgis-nacht under ale under
ale & Kennedy's bread
put the fish on the table
the bridge of good herring
& pass the fish to pass the fish
under the O'Flaherty & the fluter
de profundis de profundis
in the hollow of Christmas cake
the suds for me suddenly
the suds for me O'Sullivan
adeste fidelis the rainbow
adeste fidelis & rainbow rainbow
i seen a thin boy sittin' on his hunkers
automobile the faigh-go-baile in crest
wine & vinegar to andesite the O'Toole
under my andraditic O'Toole in the humid
& raw andantino of the Andaman Islands
there's hair on bamboo & stone as par
bid me to live, as clap clap
& go backwards in a taxi
the andabatarian anarchist
that was decent of him but now
i write an Ephemeris of the Irish saints
as the queerest explosion to explosion
the mournival of saints & knaves a thin
young man was welcome only in his bed
with my eyeshield & iron mask
password & bun of bath in nightwork
& where the where is your amnesia the
brine white suds of the Holy Ghost
or the milk white suds of the Madonna
under the land of god the land of god
in luminiferous Iraq
the iridial war my Iraq
the irideous war my Iraq
the whirls & quavers of Iraq
the warbles & trills of Iraq
warp of iridescence of Iraq
the trilineated whirl-worm Iraq
the mother-of-pearl of warbles Iraq
the whippletree of trillado Iraq
to the crippled friars the
ghastly crippled friars
& the sweat of Prester John
with the bestiality in Irish songs
true, very true, very true true
not fit to throw guts to a bear
with the holy Willy & costive Satan
or with the antedeluvian buffaloes
my deary, the lovespots on your hands
entrained, to shake the mounted foot
make walk a holy Willy & the
hobblesides of the hopfrog god
while the thin young man was shaving
the triumph to tell of past beasties in day
the unknown beggar comes to bigtimer
& the Moray eels are on the prowl
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