I see slip to the curb the long machines, Out of whose warm and windowed rooms pirouette, Shellacked with silk and light, The hard legs of our women. - Karl Shapiro Quotes
I see slip to the curb the long machines, Out of whose warm and windowed rooms pirouette, Shellacked with silk and light, The hard legs of our women. Karl Shapiro
 

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Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say - Karl Shapiro Quotes

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say

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 Death
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel. - Karl Shapiro Quotes

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

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 American Poet
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name. - Karl Shapiro Quotes

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

Karl Shapiro

 American Poet
Sunday at noon through hyaline thin air, Sees down the street, And in the camera of my eye depicts, Row-houses and row-lives: Glass after glass, door after door the same. - Karl Shapiro Quotes

Sunday at noon through hyaline thin air, Sees down the street, And in the camera of my eye depicts, Row-houses and row-lives: Glass after glass, door after door the same.

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Oh, it is I, Incredibly skinny, stooped, and neat as pie, Ignorant as dirt, erotic as an ape, Dreamy as puberty - with dirty hair! - Karl Shapiro Quotes

Oh, it is I, Incredibly skinny, stooped, and neat as pie, Ignorant as dirt, erotic as an ape, Dreamy as puberty - with dirty hair!

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 American Poet
We are deranged, walking among the cops, Who sweep glass and are large and composed. - Karl Shapiro Quotes

We are deranged, walking among the cops, Who sweep glass and are large and composed.

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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other. - Karl Shapiro Quotes

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

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 American Poet
Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent? - Karl Shapiro Quotes

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

Karl Shapiro

 American Poet
We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed, Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost. - Karl Shapiro Quotes

We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed, Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.

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 Statistics
To girls and wives always alive and fated; To men and scholars always dead like Greek And always mistranslated. - Karl Shapiro Quotes

To girls and wives always alive and fated; To men and scholars always dead like Greek And always mistranslated.

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