| Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920. | | | | Dinner at the Hotel De La Tigresse Verte | | By Donald Evans |
| | | AS they sat sipping their glasses in the courtyard | |
| Of the Hotel de la Tigresse Verte, | |
| With their silk-swathed ankles softly kissing, | |
| They were certain that they had forever | |
| Imprisoned fickleness in the vodka— | 5 |
| They knew they had found the ultimate pulse of love. | |
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| Story upon story, the dark windows whispered down | |
| To them from above, and over the roof’s edge | |
| Danced a grey moon. | |
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| The woman pressed her chicken-skin fan against her breast | 10 |
| And through her ran trepidant mutinies of desire | |
| With treacheries of emotion. Her voice vapoured: | |
| “In which room shall it be to-night, darling?” | |
| His eyes swept the broad façade, the windows, | |
| Tier upon tier, and his lips were regnant: | 15 |
| “In every room, my beloved!” | | | | |
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