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From the antennae-eyes of a lobster
As it runs obliquely to the side
While a wild-eyed maiden
Rides an ass...
I ran
Along a wave, out
By a whale's tail,
And sea-jelly,
And Einstein's radio
About spectral suns...
I rose in the air
Like steam
Spiralling in a column
Like a white tree
A clean birch standing on the sea...
I tickled
An American air-pilot's
Coarse moustache,
And heard the wheel
Of the wagon of the skies in my ears...
And then, like a ray,
I flew to a star.
And there a wise man said::Here's a fragment
Of an unknown star...[1]

  1. SP V pp 101-02.