Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 1. ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, by MINA LOY


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First Line: Though you have never possessed me
Last Line: Wants to go to bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Paris, France; Women


Though you have never possessed me
I have belonged to you since the beginning of time
And sleepily I sit on your chair beside you
Leaning against your shoulder
And your careless arm across my back gesticulates
As your indisputable male voice roars
Through my brain and my body
Arguing "Dynamic Decomposition"
Of which I understand nothing
Sleepily
And the only less male voice of your brother pugilist of the intellect
Booms as it seems to me so sleepy
Across an interval of a thousand miles
An interim of a thousand years
But you who make more noise than any other man in the world
when you clear your throat
Deafening - wake me
And I catch the thread of the argument
Immediately assuming my personal mental attitude
And cease to be a woman.

Beautiful halfhour of being a mere woman
The animal woman
Understanding nothing of man
But mastery and the security of imparted physical heat
Indifferent to cerebral gymnastics
Or regarding them as the self-indulgent play of children
Or the thunder of alien gods
But you wake me up
Anyhow who am I that I should criticize
Your theories of "Plastic Velocity"
"Let us go home she is tired and
Wants to go to bed





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