Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JULES PASCIN, by MINA LOY


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First Line: So this is death
Last Line: Cinderellas awander
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.




So this is death
to rise to the occasion
a shadow
to a shadowy persuasion


Pascin has passed
with his affectionate swagger
his air
of the Crown in the role of jester


The side-long derby-slanted Bulgar
cocked his jet eye
in its immaculate leer,
and as a coin,
tossed his destiny


Once a shy ivory boy,
the colour of life
had deepened on his cheek
in a wry irony


Pascin has ceased
to flush with ineffaceable bruises
his innubile Circes


Ceased to dangle
demi-rep angels
in tinsel bordels


Silence bleeds


from his slashed wrists
the dim homunculus
within
cries for the unbirth


The seeds
of his sly spirit
are cast to posterity
in satyric squander


a pigeon-toed populace
whose changeling women
jostle the prodigal son
as swine
Cinderellas awander.








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