FOUR
XIII
Nobody wears a yellow
flower in his buttonhole
he is altogether a queer fellow
as young as he is old
when autumn comes,
who twiddles his white thumbs
and frisks down the boulevards
without his coat and hat
—(and i wonder just why that
should please him or i wonder what he does)
and why(at the bottom of this trunk,
under some dirty collars) only a
moment
(or
was it perhaps a year)ago i found staring
me in the face a dead yellow small rose
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