Contents

Reluctant Foreword

CONCERNING AMERICA

CRY, NAKED AND PERSONAL

FANTASY

HATRED OF METAPHOR AND SIMILE

TIME, INFINITY, AND ETERNITY, DESCEND UPON A BLACK DERBY HAT

I WALK UPON A STREET

THE INCURABLE MYSTIC ANSWERS WESTERN AMBITIONS

PLATONIC NARRATIVE

PORTRAITS I. Stenographer Intellect, You are an electrical

NEGRO CRIMINAL

SHORT STORY IN SONNET FORM

FEMININE TALK

THE SWORD CONVERSES WITH A PHILOSOPHER

CAPTAIN SIMMONS

MORE ABOUT CAPTAIN SIMMONS

CAPTAIN SIMMONS' WIFE

NORTH CLARK STREET, CHICAGO I. Tame and ghastly coffins Display

LANDSCAPE

COUNTRY GIRL

NONDESCRIPT TYPIST

CONCERNING EMOTIONS

METAPHYSICAL ELIZABETH

DESCRIPTION AND EXHORTATION

INEVITABLE

THE NEGROES WHO TURNED WHITE

EXPRESSIONS ON A CHILD'S FACE

PSYCHIC CLOWNS

DEAR MINNA

VILLAGE CLERK

REALISM

AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE SHOW

Copyright 1923
Covici-McGee
Chicago

DEDICATED TO MINNA AND FEYDA