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 class to class and location to location — rhythm: the wave rhythm of Shakespeare watching clowns and kings sliding into nothing

This is the time of year when boys fifteen and seventeen wear two horned lilac blossoms in their caps — or over one ear What is it that does this ? It is a certain sort — drivers for grocers or taxidrivers white and colored — fellows that let their hair grow long in a curve over one eye — Horned purple Dirty satyrs, it is vulgarity raised to the last power They have stolen them broken the bushes apart with a curse for the owner —