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Sunday Afternoon

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Packs of houses squat along rotten streets,     Around whose hump a gray sun shines.     A perfumed, half crazy little poodle     Casts exhausted eyes at the big world.     In a window a boy catches flies.     A badly soiled baby gets angry.     On the horizon a train moves through windy meadows:     Slowly paints a long thick stroke.     Like typewriters hackney hooves clatter.     A dust-covered, noisy athletic club comes along.     Brutal shouts stream from bars for coachmen.     Yet fine bells mix with them.     On the fairgrounds where athletes wrestle,     Everything is dark and indistinct.     A barrel organ howls and scullery maids sing.     A man is smashing a rotting woman.

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