DO YOU SEE NOTHING?

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By Elizabeth Meyersohn

DO YOU SEE NOTHING?

“Do
Do you see nothing? Do

Nothing?”

I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your
head?”

But

O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—

morrow?
“What shall we ever do?”

When Lil’s husband got demobbed, I said—
I didn’t mince my words, I said to her myself,
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME

painstaking
paint

painting