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the dauphin

Sometimes

you have to break him

before he’ll ride,

—

Sometimes you have to

braid him

before he’ll rye

—

Sometimes a smile sits

in the center of the table

like a rare roast beef

—

And sometimes tragedy is lop-

limbed sometimes plates of spa-

ghetti spaghetti spa-

—

Ghetti and

strawberries

in black bowls;

—

Sometimes

cabbage and

black liver

—

The Dauphin sez “blood in shaved ice!”

or “blood shaved down to

a black carriage!”

—

The vultures hath; they are wroth;

the ghouls are broad shouldered and recline

comfortably across our stomachs

—

Never never never second-

guess yourself, sez he, whose teeth

shine and brown like butter