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/^\ IS for Art In the Cubies' domain
They 're the joy of the mad, the despair of the sane,
rubies.)
Bun.)
First you seize all that's plain to the eye, then you
lose it;
Next you search for the Soul and proceed to abuse it.
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IS for Color Cubistic ad libitum
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exhibit 'em!"
mean.)
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IS for Duchamp, the Deep- Dyed Deceiver,
Who, drawing accordeons, labels them stairs,
her!
repairs.)
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^ 'S for the Ego, intense and Exotic,
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'S for the Future for which Cubies hanker;
franker:
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/r^ IS for Gertrude Stein's limpid lucidity,
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^ ^^1 (Eloquent scribe of the Futurist soul.)
ver,
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W 'S for the Cubies' Immense Intuition,
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S for the Jam In the Cubles' headquarters,
And the Jar that they gave us, the first time
we met;
And that same Jar of Jam from across the blue waters
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77/^ 'S for Kandinsky's Kute ''improvisations"
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Jf^ IS for Life that is ''still," as they name it,
blame it.
same it
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^^^, 'S for Matisse's Mam'selle Maroruerlte,
^A\ yA (^With whom all the Cubies are madly in love;)
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'S for the Nudes that the Cubies portray,
32
ink
'S for Objective and Optical Art,
gone by,)
start,
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p^ 'S for Picasso, Picabia and Party
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'S for the Oueerness we Stand-patters feel
formation.
mation!"
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r^) IS for Reason and poor old Reality,
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't^^^ IS for Schamberg's fair dame at her 'phone,
^ Conversino^ with G. Stein, the Futurist scribe,
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T 'S for
The Cubies
For a game
tlie Type of Tree Chabaud's erected.
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y'S for the Union so Utterly Useless
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IS for Villon's musicianlv lady
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. . .
., 'S for Woolworth, the buildinor so stable,
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IS the Xit, Xtremely alluring
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¥'S for the Yawn overcomino^ each Cubie
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IS for Zak's summer-time composition;
night.
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