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BLACK SLIPPERS: BELLOTTI by EZRA POUND

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First Line: AT THE TABLE BEYOND US
Last Line: SHE RE-ENTERS THEM WITH A GROAN.
At the table beyond us
With her little suede slippers off,
With her white-stocking'd feet
Carefully kept from the floor by a napkin,
She converses:

@3"Connaissez-vous Ostende?"@1

The gurgling Italian lady on the other side of the restaurant
Replies with a certain hauteur,
But I await with patience,
To see how Celestine will re-enter her slippers.
She re-enters them with a groan.



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