1. The Plot Against The Giant

    First Girl
    When this yokel comes maundering,
    Whetting his hacker,
    I shall run before him,
    Diffusing the civilest odors
    Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers.
    It will check him.

    Second Girl
    I shall run before him,
    Arching cloths besprinkled with colors
    As small as fish-eggs.
    The threads
    Will abash him.

    Third Girl
    Oh, la…le pauvre!
    I shall run before him,
    With a curious puffing.
    He will bend his ear then.
    I shall whisper
    Heavenly labials in a world of gutturals.
    It will undo him.

    -Wallace Stevens

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