Cranberries
Could there not be a sudden date, could there not be in the presentsettlement of old age pensions, could there not be by a witness, couldthere be.
Count the chain, cut the grass, silence the noon and murder flies. Seethe basting undip the chart, see the way the kinds are best seen fromthe rest, from that and untidy.
Cut the whole space into twenty-four spaces and then and then is there ayellow color, there is but it is smelled, it is then put where it is andnothing stolen.
A remarkable degree of red means that, a remarkable exchange is made.
Climbing altogether in when there is a solid chance of soiling no morethan a dirty thing, coloring all of it in steadying is jelly.
Just as it is suffering, just as it is succeeded, just as it is moist sois there no countering.
Words in this poem
- untidy a.
- Unseasonable; untimely.
- altogether adv.
- All together; conjointly. [OE. altogedere; al all + togedere together. See Together.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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Cranberries 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, Cranberries, in Tender Buttons (1914), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #15396, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/stein-tender-buttons/food-cranberries.html, id L28693.
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