A Piano
If the speed is open, if the color is careless, if the selection of astrong scent is not awkward, if the button holder is held by all thewaving color and there is no color, not any color. If there is no dirtin a pin and there can be none scarcely, if there is not then the placeis the same as up standing.
This is no dark custom and it even is not acted in any such a way that arestraint is not spread. That is spread, it shuts and it lifts andawkwardly not awkwardly the centre is in standing.
Words in this poem
- centre v. i.
- To be placed in a center; to be central.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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A Piano 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, A Piano, in Tender Buttons (1914), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #15396, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/stein-tender-buttons/objects-a-piano.html, id L28647.
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