Three Moments in Paris + 

One OвАЩClock at Night + 

Though you had never possessed me + 

I had belonged to you since the beginning of time + 

And sleepily I sat on your chair beside you + 

Leaning against your shoulder + 

And your careless arm across my back gesticulated + 

As your indisputable male voice + 

roared + 

Through my brain and my body + 

Arguing dynamic decomposition + 

Of which I was understanding nothing + 

Sleepily + 

And the only less male voice of your brother pugilist of the intellect + 

Boomed + 

as it seemed to me + 

so sleepy + 

Across an interval of a thousand miles + 

An interim of a thousand years + 

But you who make more noise than any man in the world when you clear your throat + 

Deafening + 

woke me + 

And I caught the thread of the argument + 

Immediately assuming my personal mental attitude + 

And ceased to be a woman + 

Beautiful half-hour of being a mere woman + 

The animal woman + 

Understanding nothing of man + 

But mastery + 

and the security of imparted physical heat + 

Indifferent to cerebral gymnastics + 

Or regarding them as the self-indulgent play of children + 

Or the thunder of alien gods + 

But you woke me up + 

Anyhow + 

who am I that I should criticize your theories of plastic velocity + 

вАЬLet us go home + 

she is tired + 

and wants to go to bed.вАЭ + 

Caf√© du N√©ant + 

Little tapers lighted + 

leaning diagonally + 

Stuck in coffin tables of the Caf√© du N√©ant + 

Leaning to the breath of baited bodies + 

Like young poplars fringing the Loire + 

Eyes that are full of love + 

And eyes that are full of kohl + 

Projecting light across the fulsome ambiente + 

Trailing the rest of the animal behind them + 

Telling of tales without words + 

And lies of no consequence + 

One way or another + 

The young lovers hermetically buttoned up in black + 

To black cravat + 

To the blue powder edge dusting the yellow throat + 

What color could have been your bodies + 

When last you put them away + 

Nostalgic youth + 

Holding your mistressвАЩs pricked finger + 

In the indifferent flame of the taper + 

Synthetic symbol of + 

life + 

In this factitious chamber of + 

death + 

The woman + 

As usual + 

Is smiling + 

as bravely + 

As it is given to her to be + 

brave + 

While the brandy cherries + 

In winking glasses + 

Are decomposing + 

Harmoniously + 

With the flesh of spectators + 

And at a given spot + 

There is one + 

Who + 

Having the concentric lighting focused precisely upon her + 

Prophetically blossoms in perfect putrefaction + 

Yet + 

there are cabs outside the door. + 

Magasins du Louvre + 

All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass + 

Long lines of boxes + 

Of dolls + 

Propped against banisters + 

Walls and pillars + 

Huddled on shelves + 

And composite babies with arms extended + 

Hang from the ceiling + 

Beckoning + 

Smiling + 

In a profound silence + 

Which the shop walker left trailing behind him + 

When he ambled to the further end of the gallery + 

To annoy the shop-girl + 

All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass + 

They alone have the effrontery to + 

Stare through the human soul + 

Seeing nothing + 

Between parted fringes + 

One cocotte wears a bowler hat and a sham camellia + 

And one an iridescent boa + 

For there are two of them + 

Passing + 

And the solicitous mouth of one is straight + 

The other curved to a static smile + 

They see the dolls + 

And for a moment their eyes relax + 

To a flicker of elements unconditionally primeval + 

And now averted + 

Seek each otherвАЩs + 

surreptitiously + 

To know if the other has seen + 

While mine are inextricably entangled with the pattern of the carpet + 

As eyes are apt to be + 

In their shame + 

Having surprised a gesture that is ultimately intimate + 

All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass. + 