Do you see
nothing?
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
"Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.
"What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
"I never know what you are thinking. Think. "
I think we are in rats' alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.
"What is that noise? "
The wind under the door.
"What is that noise now? What is the wind doing? "
Nothing again nothing. 120
"Do
"You know nothing?
Do you see nothing? Do you remember
"Nothing? "
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
"Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head? "
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now? What shall I do? "
I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street
"With my hair down, so. What shall we do tomorrow?
"What shall we ever do? "
The hot water at ten.
And if it rains, a closed car at four.
And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said--
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart.
He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there.
