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DIVERTIMIENTO by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

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First Line: MISERABLE LITTLE WOMAN / IN A BROWN COAT-- / QUIT WHINING
Last Line: THREE WIVES AND TWENTY-TWO CHILDREN.
Subject(s): BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN (1685-1750);

Miserable little woman
in a brown coat --
quit whining!
My hand for you!
We'll skip down the tin cornices
of Main Street
flicking the dull roof-line
with our toe-tips!
Hop clear of the bank! A
pin-wheel round the white flag-pole.

And I'll sing you the while
a thing to split your sides
about Johann Sebastian Bach,
the father of music, who had
three wives and twenty-two children.



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