Effie's head
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| here is little Effie's head whose brains are made of gingerbread |
stooping by the coffinlid waiting for something to rise |
bellowing through the general noise Where is Effie who was dead? |
whereupon its fellow five crumbs cuckled as if they were alive |
cried the third crumb, i am should and this is my little sister could |
and the last crumb with some shame whispered unto God, my name |
| just imagine it I say God amid a monstrous din |
(want a match or can you see?) which the six subjunctive crumbs |
coloured face on which a frown puzzles, but I know the way- |
with the strenuous music of the innumerable capering damned) |
cross the threshold have no dread lift the sheet back in this way. |
e.e. cummings