From One Bird in Three

on the water-pulpits the revelers were waving their little flags as indicated in figure 5

the adventurers with false beards and diamond hooves snowingly climed up on the podium by means of bloated whale-skins

the great phantom-lion harun al-rashid pronounced herring 'n radish yawned three times and showed his teeth stained black with nicotine

the mercerized rattlesnakes uncoiled from their spools gathered their harvest and locked it up in stones

the eyes of young stars stepped forth from the hem of death

after the flagellation on the sun-cheek the hooves of the donkey danced on bottlenecks

blood and death dropped like flakes from the leather towers

how many skeletons turned the wheels of the gates

when the waterfall had crowed three times its wallpaper turned pale to the blood and the sailor-matrix burst into bits

the closets came up from the depths and spread out their anchors

at last the sea risks the fainting of the bitter compasses

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