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EXPOSITION OF THE CONTENTS OF A CAB by WALLACE STEVENS

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First Line: VICTORIA CLEMENTINA, NEGRESS
Last Line: Except linen, embroidered / by elderly women?
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS - WOMEN; TAXIS;
Victoria Clementina, negress,
Took seven white dogs
To ride in a cab.
Bells of the dogs chinked.
Harness of the horses shuffled
Like brazen shells.
Oh-h??-h??! Fragrant puppets
By the green lake-pallors,
She too is flesh,
And a breech-cloth might wear,
Netted of topaz and ruby
And savage blooms ;
Thridding the squawkiest jungle
In a golden sedan,
White dogs at bay.
What breech-cloth might you wear-
Except linen, embroidered
By elderly women ?



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