Introducing Irony (Version 2)

<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">GARBAGE-HEAP</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse"><div class="drop-cap3">THE wind was shrill and mercenary,</div> </div> <div class="verse">Like a housewife pacing down the sky.</div> <div class="verse">Green weeds and tin-cans in the yard</div> <div class="verse">Made a debris of ludicrous dissipations.</div> <div class="verse">The ochre of cold elations</div> <div class="verse">Had settled on the cans.</div> <div class="verse">Their brilliant labels peeped from the weeds,</div> <div class="verse">Like the remains of a charlatan.</div> <div class="verse">A bone reclined against a fence-post</div> <div class="verse">And mouldily congratulated life.</div> <div class="verse">A woman&#8217;s garter wasted its faded frills</div> <div class="verse">Upon a newspaper argument.</div> <div class="verse">The shipwrecked rancor of bottles and boxes</div> <div class="verse">Was pressed to disfigured complexities.</div> <div class="verse">A smell of torrential asperity</div> <div class="verse">Knew the spirit of the yard.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Contented or incensed,</div> <div class="verse">The wreckage stood in the yard,</div> <div class="verse">One shade below the sardonic.</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />