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The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Wallace Stevens

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1922
Pages
Pages 1

A wake is being laid out in a poor house, and the poem calls for cigars, flirting and ice cream, crowning appetite and the plain fact of death over every finer pretence.

Let be be finale of seem.
The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Wallace Stevens

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