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The Cubies' ABC

The Cubies' ABC

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soon prohibit ’em!

(Watch them at work and you’ll see what I mean.)
—C is for Color Cubistic ad libitum.

D is for Duchamp, the Deep-Dyed Deceiver,
Who, drawing accordeons, labels them stairs,
With a lady that must have been done in a fever,—
His model won’t see her, we trust, it would grieve her!—
(Should the stairway collapse, Cubie’s good at repairs.)
—D is for Duchamp, the Deep-Dyed Deceiver.

E ’s for the Ego, intense and Exotic,
Enjoyed by a Cubie, and quaintly Expressed
In a lachrymose face with a gaze idiotic
When seen on the canvas.—It’s really Quixotic
To offer one’s soul to the Cubical test!
—E’s for the Ego, intense and Exotic.

F ’s for the Future for which Cubies hanker;—
To Hals, Perugino and all that old crew
They give up the Past without envy or rancor,
While saying in tones than which naught could be franker:
“Come, move on,—it’s our turn! They have finished with you.”
—F’s for the Future for which Cubies hanker.

G is for Gertrude Stein’s limpid lucidity,
(Eloquent scribe of the Futurist soul.)
Cubies devour each word with avidity:
Alone words lack sense,” they affirm with placidity,
“But how wise we’ll be when we’ve swallowed the whole!”
—G is for Gertrude Stein’s limpid lucidity.

H is for Henri’s young Red Top, the shaver
Whom Cubies regard with aversion and spite.
His life-like appearance has won their

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