Thursday, 23 June 2011

Stevie Smith: Drugs Made Pauline Vague


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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Adiantum_pedatum_09905.JPG


Adiantum pedantum (Northern Maidenhair Fern): photo by Walter Siegmund, 15 May 2007







........Drugs made Pauline vague.


........She sat one day at the breakfast table


........Fingering in a baffled way


........The fronds of the maidenhair plant.




Was it the salt you were looking for dear?


Said Dulcie, exchanging a glance with the Brigadier.




........Chuff chuff Pauline what's the matter?


........Said the Brigadier to his wife


........Who did not even notice


........What a handsome couple they made.




Breakfast Comix One: Tom Raworth


Stevie Smith: Drugs Made Pauline Vague, from Harold's Leap, 1957
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3 comments:

  1. manik sharma23 June 2011 at 07:57

    Tom,
    Although the expression of the couple showcased here are quite uncanny to pick up on, i love what the lady says...and as deliverance from the previous post..as we move on..

    i stood between my lives..
    lit a smoke with one
    and put it out with the other,
    We burn until we burn...

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  2. Issa's Untidy Hut26 June 2011 at 04:30

    Though I enjoy Tom Raworth's collage, Stevie Smith's "fingering ... the maidenhair plant" trumps all.

    Funny and cutting, indeed.

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  3. TC26 June 2011 at 05:28

    As we move on... fingering our maidenhair fronds, in the great darkness.

    Er, of morning....

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