The Sardonic Arm

By Maxwell Bodenheim

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 20, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664187000

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Maxwell Bodenheim

The Sardonic Arm

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

Of lust for flesh and gold.

With a spiritual savageness

Colors bring their lucid treason

To ancient, shrouded tyrannies.

The knitted green of