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LADY LAURA IN BOHEMIA, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trained in a circus of swans
Last Line: She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.


Trained in a circus of swans
she
proceeds recedingly


Her eliminate flesh of fashion
inseparable from the genealogical tree


columns such towering reticence
of lifted chin
her hiccoughs seem
preparatory to bowing to the Queen


Her somersault descent
into the half-baked underworld
nor the inebriate regret


disturb
her vertical caste
They drove 'em from the cradle on the curb


This abbess-prostitute
presides
Jazz-Mass


the gin-fizz eucharist dispenses
#NAME?
in the inconsummate embraces
of a one armed Pittsburger
Here zip along out of that, Laura!
I can't come to Armenonville with you-u
I want to stay here and behave like a grue-u "


Her hell is
Zelli's


Where she floods the bar
with all her curls
in the delirious tears from those bill-poster eyes
plastering " court proceedings" on the wall
of her inconsiderable soul


A tempered tool
of an exclusive finishing-school
her velvet larynx
slushes


Glup - you mustn't speak to me
I'm bad - haven't you heard?
I'm Orful - o - g'lup I'm Horrid "


She gushes
- - know young Detruille?
Isn't he di-vi-ne
Such a sweet nature
that boy has


The other night when he tucked in with me
we talked most seriously
we have the same ideals
My dear he has
the eyes of Buddha
O I think he's simply di-vi-ne
The only man who ever understood
everything - If I'd liked
he would'a'
married me
O I think he's simply di-vi-ne "


Out of the sentimental slobber
Lady Laura - momentarily sober
How queer - that Detruille
said that he
once was introduced -
Well, I do wonder
how on earth ever such a bounder
happened to meet my people "


Sobs on my shoulder -
the memorable divorcee
and christened by the archbishop of Canterbury
Sixteen co-re -
Well let that pass!


She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass








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