Crowd with alcoholic eyes (@3Rousing pictures@1) Gay gesticulation electricity vulgar remarks Painted beauties darting toward embattled lusts @3Drums violins@1 Gin-fizzes @3bass viols Hello! violas@1 Ragtimes @3trombones Hello! cymbals@1 stir the madness of the unleashed senses. @3banjo@1 This is the scene @3New film@1 SYNTHESIS of human life @3triumphant@1 Here woman reigns @3feline artificial animal@1 @3Modern Fire gongs Saturnalia cymbal strokes@1 Mechanical purviews @3Orgy of the eyes@1 symphony of electric odors everything is laid bare prodigious abnormal cerebral madness = alternate synoptic intelligence modern Red negroes (@3phenomenons@1) Lascivious dancers Lightning clowns body plays Tight-rope eccentrics @3red Orchestration of colors blue@1 Moonlight projectors @3yellow green@1 HO sleight of hand @3successive@1 flying falls @3acts@1 In a minute body contortions @3in@1 sighings of the flute @3space@1 Mimes Ventriloquists Boxers Animaltrainers Jugglers @3Scene-design@1 Modern paroxysms of madness under the conquering bravos @3of@1 sharp males one sole desire @3sounds@1 outthrust monocles violent instincts under the smoking jackets boils the lust of their blood The JAZZ-BAND screams @3fre-n-zieeeed@1 Electric effluvia in the air so strong that the Music Halls @3flame@1 seem suddenly @3fever alcohol@1 furnaces of a terrible explosive joy High evening, bored by the apotheosis. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A PRAYER IN SPRING by ROBERT FROST THE PAST IS THE PRESENT by MARIANNE MOORE METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 8. BAUCIS AND PHILEMON by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO SONNET: 107 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IDYLL 11. THE CYCLOPS by THEOCRITUS A BALLADE OF OTHER IDOLS by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) THE CALL OF THE DESERT by EMILY BALDWIN |