George Oppen

["the prudery / Of Frigidaire"]

a passage from Discrete Series (1934)

Thus

Hides the

Parts--the prudery
Of Frigidaire, of
Soda-jerking----

Thus

Above the

Plane of lunch, of wives
Removes itself
(As soda-jerking from
the private act

Of
Cracking eggs);

big-Business

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