Cake
Cake cast in went to be and needles wine needles are such.
This is today. A can experiment is that which makes a town, makes a towndirty, it is little please. We came back. Two bore, bore what, a mussedash, ash when there is tin. This meant cake. It was a sign.
Another time there was extra a hat pin sought long and this dark made adisplay. The result was yellow. A caution, not a caution to be.
It is no use to cause a foolish number. A blanket stretch a cloud, ashame, all that bakery can tease, all that is beginning and yesterdayyesterday we had it met. It means some change. No some day.
A little leaf upon a scene an ocean any where there, a bland and likelyin the stream a recollection green land. Why white.
Words in this poem
- went n.
- Course; way; path; journey; direction.
- bakery n.
- The trade of a baker.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Cake is in the public domain. This text is taken from Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms, Project Gutenberg ebook #15396; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Gertrude Stein, Cake, in Tender Buttons (1914), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #15396, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/stein-tender-buttons/food-cake.html, id L28703.
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