A. S. J. Tessimond

1902-1962 / English

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City, Ads, and Modern Rooms

Advertisements, tube stations, wet city nights, rooms, houses, and Tessimond's urban modernity.

Love, Meeting, and Song

Meetings, betrayals, almost-love, love songs, and Tessimond's crisp emotional surfaces.

Music, Cinema, and Performance

Music, cinema, quickstep, Chaplin, cathedrals, and Tessimond's public entertainments.

Attack On The Ad-ManThis trumpeter of nothingness, employed / To keep our reason dull and null and void. / This man of w

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MeetingDogs take new friends abruptly and by smell, / Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive. / Monkey

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Birch TreeThe birch tree in winter / Leaning over the secret pool / Is Narcissus in love / With the slight whi

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The Man In The Bowler HatI am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man: / The man who sat on your right in the morning train: / The

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Flight Of StairsStairs fly as straight as hawks; / Or else in spirals, curve out of curve, pausing / At a ledge to p

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BetrayalIf a man says half himself in the light, adroit / Way a tune shakes into equilibrium, / Or approxima

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Empty RoomThe clock disserts on punctuation, syntax. / The clock's voice, thin and dry, asserts, repeats. / Th

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HousesPeople who are afraid of themselves / Multiply themselves into families / And so divide themselves /

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Day DreamOne day people will touch and talk perhaps / easily, / And loving be natural as breathing and warm a

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One Almost MightWouldn't you say, / Wouldn't you say: one day, / With a little more time or a little more patience,

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