A. S. J. Tessimond
City, Ads, and Modern Rooms
Advertisements, tube stations, wet city nights, rooms, houses, and Tessimond's urban modernity.
Tube Station
The tube lift mounts,
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sap in a stem,
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And blossoms its load,
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a black, untidy rose.
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The founta
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Wet City Night
Light drunkenly reels into shadow;
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Blurs, slurs uneasily;
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Slides off the eyeballs:
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The segment
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Empty Room
The clock disserts on punctuation, syntax.
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The clock's voice, thin and dry, asserts, repeats.
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Th
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Attack On The Ad-Man
This trumpeter of nothingness, employed
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To keep our reason dull and null and void.
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This man of w
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Houses
People who are afraid of themselves
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Multiply themselves into families
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And so divide themselves /
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June Sick Room
The birds' shrill fluting
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Beats on the pink blind,
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Pierces the pink blind
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At whose edge fumble
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