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PHANTASUS: 6, 14 by ARNO HOLZ

First Line: I WISH YOU WERE REAL!
Last Line: BURST YOUR BOWELS!

I wish you were real!

From off your golden chair
from out your heaven of singing seraphim,
that turns ringwise about your great, green, mighty, trembling, ether-billowed
earth,

by the hair of your long, laughable Jews'-beard,
I would pull you down and dip you

in all the misery, in all the suffering, in the whole sauce!

There!! Guzzle!!
Burst your bowels!



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