Quite unexpectedly as Vasserot
The armless ambidextrian was lighting
A match between his great and second toe
And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting
The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum
Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough
In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb—

Quite unexpectedly the top blew off:




And there, there overhead, there, there, hung over

Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,

There in the starless dark the poise, the hover,

There with vast wings against the canceled skies,

There in the sudden blackness, the black pall

Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.


-Archibald MacLeish







Where I stash me music