Costa Magic

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Costa Magic

Her father

Indisposed to her marriage

And a rabid man at that

My most sympathetic daughterвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ

Make yourself a conception

As large as this one

Here

But with yellow hair

From the house

Issuing

Sunday dressed

Combed precisely

Splosh!

Pours something

Viscuous

Malefic

Unfamiliar

While listening up

I hear my husband

Mumbling

Mumbling

Mumbling

at the window

Malediction

Incantation

Under an hour

Her hand to her side pressing

Suffering

Being bewitched

Cesira fading

Daily

daily

feeble

softer

The doctorвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвАКвАЬPhthisisвАЭ

The wise woman

says to take her

So we

following her instruction

I and the neighbour

Take herвБ†вАФ

The glass rattling

The rain slipping

I and the neighbour and her aunt

Bunched together

And Cesira

Droops across the cab

Fields and houses

Pass

like the pulling out

Of sweetmeat ribbon

From a rascalвАЩs mouth

Till

A wheel in a rut

Jerks back my girl on the padding

And the hedges into the sky

Coming to the magic tree

Cesira becomes as a wild beast

A tree of age

вАЬIf Cesira should not become as a wild beast

It is merely PhthisisвАЭ

This being the wise womanвАЩs instruction

Knowing she has to die

We drive home

To wait

She certainly does in time

It is unnatural in a Father

Bewitching a daughter

Whose hair

down

covers her thighs.