Living
The Re-echo Club: as by Ben Jonson
From The Re-echo Club
Still to be cubed, still to be square,
As you were going down a stair;
Still to see lurid pigments sluiced,--
Lady, it is to be deduced,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not square, all is not round.
Give me a cube, give me a line
That makes a whirling maze design;
Robes made of sheet-iron, flowing free,--
Such sweet device more taketh me
Than masterpieces by old Rubes
Which charm not eyes attuned to cubes.
Codex Note
A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Ben Jonson as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Cubist Nude).
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Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Ben Jonson.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/314/.
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Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Ben Jonson.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/314/.
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