Advice: A Book of Poems

<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">PIERROT OBJECTS</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="verse">They have made me an airy apology</div> <div class="verse">For the crude insistence of their flesh!</div> <div class="verse">They have made me twist my tongue</div> <div class="verse">Into fickle nonchalance!</div> <div class="verse">With a languid impudence</div> <div class="verse">I have tarried underneath the moon,</div> <div class="verse">While the haggard reticence</div> <div class="verse">Of their lives forgot itself within me!</div> <div class="verse">Well, I am rebelling</div> <div class="verse">At the men who make me</div> <div class="verse">Their grimacing marionnette!</div> <div class="verse">Let them find another dancing-teacher</div> <div class="verse">For their dull, unruffled fears.</div> <div class="verse">I am off to tear my black and white</div> <div class="verse">Into shreds, within a valley</div> <div class="verse">Where nakedness and colours do not need</div> <div class="verse">An artificial night to make them brave!</div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />