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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.

Transparency; or, How Did We Read Him...? Let Us Count The Ways.

(In every appearance in the verses below of the word 'read' except the final one, that word should be pronounced /red/.) We read him...