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BIG SUR195

Kara tavira, mnash grand bash
—poosh l’abas—croosh
L’a haut—Plash au pied—
Peeeee—Rolle test boulles—
Manche d’la rache—
The handsome King prevails
over boom sing bird head—
“Crache tes idées,” spit yr ideas,
says the sea, to me, quite
appro priate ly—
Pss! pss! pss!
Ps! girl inside!
Red shoes scum, eyes of old
sorcerers, toenails hanging down
in the barrel of old firkin cheese
the Dutchman forgot t’eat that
tempest
nineteen O
sixteen—
When torpedoed by gunboat
Pedro in the Valley
of a Million Fees?

When Magellan crosseyed
ate the Amazonian feet—
And, Ah, when Colombo cross’t!
When Drake sir francised the waves
with feeding of the blue jay
dark—pounded his aleward
tank before the boom,
housed up all thoughts of Erik
the Red the Greenland caperer
& builder of rockdungs in New
Port—New—yet—
Oldport Indian Fishhead—
Oldport Tattoo Kwakiutl Headpost
taboo potash Coyotl potlatch?
Old Primitive Columbia.—
Named for Colom bus?
Name for Aruggio Vesmarica—