CONTENTS
BABY
NIGHTMARE AND SOMETHING DELICATE
REGARDING AN AMERICAN VILLAGE
THREE PORTRAITS
DEFINITIONS
TO A CORPULENT SINGER
TOPSY-TURVY
REVILE THE ACROBAT
COMPULSORY TASKS
RHYMED CONVERSATION WITH MONEY
HIGHLY DELIBERATE POEM
POEM
REALISTIC CREATOR
CITY STREETS
DECADENT CRY [A]
GIRL
COLOR AND A WOMAN
RELUCTANT LADY
PSYCHOLOGY FROM MARS
TO TIME
DECADENT DUET
POEM TO A POLICEMAN
INTIMATE SCENE
NEW YORK CITY
WE WANT LYRICS
A VISITOR FROM MARS SMILES
SURPRISE
AGAINST THIS AGE
MAXWELL BODENHEIM
BONI AND LIVERIGHT PUBLISHERS : : NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY BONI AND LIVERIGHT, INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To FEDYA AND MINNA FOUR EYES WITHIN A BLIND WORLD
Some of the poems in this book have appeared in The Century, The Bookman, The Nation, The Dial, The Menorah Journal, Broom, The Double Dealer, Shadowland, and Harper’s Magazine.
