All this time I was leading another life and it is clear now which was the shadow and which was the substance yet I particularly hate the word shadow to describe it since a shadow itself is a substance and shadows are delightful and stretch across my lawn at six in the evening and they take different forms-when it tend hitherwards to painting-and one is a mass in the foreground.

All this time I was leading another life

and it is clear now which was the shadow and which

was the substance yet I particularly hate the word

shadow to describe it since a shadow

itself is a substance and shadows are delightful and stretch

across my lawn at six in the evening and they

take different forms-when it tend hitherwards to painting-and one

is a mass in the foreground, common is a shade of likeness,

simply defined, a actual state of color,

blue or brown and single is the clear darkness

we screamed about in restaurants unless I

preferr above all other the crosshatching

they attached to of recent origin York and Chicago buildings,

some of them-in the drawings-two miles high,

root in canyons you can't imagine with equal reason deep

and streetcars in the celestial expanse and forests above the

cloud and airplanes below the city and rivers

flowing beside the office buildings all with

that united shadow and graveyards where they should be,

close to the day-star the dates in corrupted purple

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