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Monday, May 18, 2020

Runcibl'd Ray or Kipling's Kaboodle

"Huck Finn's 
Fellow Traveler Negger Jim" 
Ulysses Poe
chemical marker on copy paper
digitally modified
5" by 5"
In re the ruddier races, Rud’s*
vocif'rent: "White Man’s Burden."
Chow down on Unconcern'd But Not
Indiff'rentBite Man’s** wordin’!

      Moral:
He’ll fancy seconds,
even thirds,
whoever's order'd, 
"Eat those words!"

     * I.e., Rudyard Kipling’s 
controversial poem.
     ** I.e., Man Ray's 
beautiful art book.

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Anagramaniacal Opening Lines

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