Living

The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Cubist Nude)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

On an old symbolic staircase,
Looking forty ways at once;
There's a Cubist Nude descending,
With the queerest sort of stunts.
For the staircase is a-falling,
And the Noodle seems to say:
"Though you hear my soul a-calling,
You can't see me, anyway!"

Oh, this symbol balderdash,
And this post-Impression trash;
Can't you see their paint a-chunkin in a hotchy-potchy splash?
Where the motives bold and brash
Of the Cubist painters clash,
And the Nude descends like thunder down a staircase gone to smash!

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A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Rudyard Kipling as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Cubist Nude).

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/311/.

Chicago

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/311/.

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