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“Bantams in the Pine-Woods” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan
Of tan with henna hackles, halt!
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Damned universal cock, as if the sun
Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail.
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Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal.
Your world is you. I am my world.
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You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat!
Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines,
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Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs,
And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.