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Title: Sporadic Fiction
Author: Franklin P. Adams [
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Why not a poem as they treat
The stories in the magazines?
"Eustacia's lips were very sweet.
He stooped to"-and here intervenes
A line--italics--telling one
Where one may learn the things that he,
The noble hero, had begun.
(Continuation on page 3.)
Page 3--oh, here it is--no, here--
"Kiss them. Eustacia hung her head;
Whereat he said, 'Eustacia dear'--
And sweetly low Eustacia said:"
(Continued on page 17.)
Here, just between the corset ad.
And that of Smithers' Canderine.
(Eustacia sweet, you drive me mad.)
"No, no, not that! But let me tell
You why I scorn your ardent kiss--
Not that I do not love you well;"
No, Archibald, the reason's this:
(Continued on page 24.)
Turn, turn my leaves, and let me learn
Eustacia's fate; I pine for more;
Oh, turn and turn and turn and turn!
"Because--and yet I ought not say
The wherefore of my sudden whim."
Here Archibald looked at Eusta-
Cia, and Eustacia looked at him.
"Because," continued she, "my head--"
I never knew Eustacia's fate,
I never knew what 'Stacia said.
(Continued on page 58.)
[The end]
Franklin P. Adams's poem: Sporadic Fiction
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