Living

The Re-echo Club: as by Edgar Allan Poe (Cubist Nude)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom made of squares,
That a Lady lived whom you may know
As the Nude Descending the Stairs,
And the lady lived with no other home,
But those racketty-packetty stairs!

And the moon never beams
Without jarring the seams
Of those cubic triangular stairs;
And the earth never quakes
Without bringing the shakes
To those wigglety-wagglety stairs.

And neither the artists in circles above,
Or critics who view the debris,
Can ever dissever the Nude from the Stairs,
For both are so hobble-de-gee,
So hobble-de-wobble-de-gee!

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

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Edgar Allan Poe (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/325/.

Chicago

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Edgar Allan Poe (Cubist Nude).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/325/.

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