1930's

I

Thus

Hides the

Parts-the prudery

Of Frigidaire, of

Soda-jerking-

Thus

Above the

Plane of lunch, of wives,

Removes itself

(As soda-jerking from

The private act

Of

Cracking eggs);

Big-Business.

u

The knowledge not of sorrow, you were saying, but of

boredom,

Is of-aside from reading speaking smoking-

Of what, Maude Blessingbourne it was, wished to know

when, having risen,

"Approached the window as if to see what really was going

on";

And saw rain falling, in the distance more slowly,

The road clear from her past the window-glass-

George A. Oppen

Of the world, weather-swept, with which one shares the

century.

George A. Oppen