Vulgar words in Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (Page 1)

This book at a glance

blockhead x 3
damn x 1
whore x 2
            

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2 A.M. Astigmatism The Coal Picker Storm-Racked Convalescence Patience Apology A Petition A Blockhead Stupidity Irony Happiness The Last Quarter of the Moon A Tale of Starvation The Foreigner Absence A Gift The Bungler Fool's Money Bags Miscast I Miscast II Anticipation Vintage The Tree of Scarlet Berries Obligation The Taxi The Giver of Stars The Temple Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success In Answer to a Request Poppy Seed The Great Adventure of Max Breuck Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris After Hearing a Waltz by Bartok Clear, with Light, Variable Winds The Basket In a Castle The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde The Exeter Road The Shadow The Forsaken Late September The Pike The Blue Scarf White and Green Aubade Music A Lady In a Garden A Tulip Garden Sword Blades And Poppy Seed A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran and hid among the staves Of an old wharf.

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A Blockhead Before me lies a mass of shapeless days, Unseparated atoms, and I must Sort them apart and live them.

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"Damn Grootver, who can force my time to this employ!"

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My mother would call me "whore", and spit upon me; the priest would have me repent, and have the rest of my life spent in a convent.

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I am no whore, no bad woman, he loved me, and we were to be married.

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Notes: After Hearing a Waltz by Bartok: Originally: After Hearing a Waltz by Bartók: A Blockhead: "There are non, ever.

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