Brrr

The pornographic bookshop-

It's caught itself on fire!

The Marquis, Frank Harris, and O-

The Travellers Companions are gone.

It's too late for words:

The pictures! Save the pictures!

We carry them out in our arms:

The Dark Lady, the Tattooed Man,

And Egypt, unbitten and bitten.

The fires have leaped from our eyes.

A silence is falling, and falls,

Out of which a man might speak,

But only the silence speaks,

And the ashes, the cold ashes.