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    Pneumatic Skips With a Purse

    Long things with pumps—
    They all fall down—
    Still ride steady—
    Pneumatic skips with a purse—
    The whole world in bones and sealed paint—
    You make it all move, you know.

    O what a show!
    A spectacular show of smoke and mirrors—
    The words and the tap in her act.
    All the marks: they must mean something—
    The public is desperate for it to mean something.
    Bed goes up, bed goes down,
    Cheap, quiet and ahead.

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