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Ulysses

the weight all down my side telling me pull the right reins
now pull the left and the tide all swamping in floods in
through the bottom and his oar slipping out of the stirrup
its a mercy we werent all drowned he can swim of course

me no theres no danger whatsoever keep yourself calm in
his flannel trousers Id like to have tattered them down off
him before all the people and give him what that one calls
flagellate till he was black and blue do him all the good in
the world only for that longnosed chap I dont know who
he is with that other beauty Burke out of the City Arms
hotel was there spying around as usual on the slip always
where he wasnt wanted if there was a row on youd vomit
a better face there was no love lost between us thats 1
consolation I wonder what kind is that book he brought
me Sweets of Sin by a gentleman of fashion some other
Mr de Kock I suppose the people gave him that nickname
going about with his tube from one woman to another I
couldnt even change my new white shoes all ruined with
the saltwater and the hat I had with that feather all blowy
and tossed on me how annoying and provoking because
the smell of the sea excited me of course the sardines and
the bream in Catalan bay round the back of the rock they
were fine all silver in the fishermens baskets old Luigi near
a hundred they said came from Genoa and the tall old

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