Excerpt: ...encumbers The mental view, as though 't were some Bald-headed brand of chewing-gum. Study your own psychology! See how some mere tautology Of picture, or of print, Has realized the glint Of your good money. Pg 54 How often have persistent views Of one bare head sold you your shoes! Which does seem funny; And yet 'twas head-work, after all, Which helped the shoe-man make his haul. There's some obscure locality In every man's mentality Which, I am free to state, I'd like to penetrate For my felicity. For now who ...
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Excerpt: ...encumbers The mental view, as though 't were some Bald-headed brand of chewing-gum. Study your own psychology! See how some mere tautology Of picture, or of print, Has realized the glint Of your good money. Pg 54 How often have persistent views Of one bare head sold you your shoes! Which does seem funny; And yet 'twas head-work, after all, Which helped the shoe-man make his haul. There's some obscure locality In every man's mentality Which, I am free to state, I'd like to penetrate For my felicity. For now who gives a second look When he perceives a POEM by Cooke? But come publicity! And then a poem by COOKE were seen The first thing in the magazine! Page 55. Pg 55 MOVE! We are on the main line of a crowded track; We've got to go forward; we can't go back And run the risk of colliding: We must make schedule, not now and again, But always, forever and ever, amen! Or else switch off on a siding. If ever we loaf, like a car in the yard, Doesn't somebody bump us, and bump us hard, I wonder? You've succeeded in building a pretty fair trade, But can you sit down in the grateful shade And kill time cutting up capers? Or must you hustle and scheme and sweat, Though the shine be fine or the weather be wet, And keep your page in the papers? If ever you fail to be pulling the strings, Aren't some of your rivals around doing things, I wonder? You're a first-class salesman. You know your line; Your house is good and your goods are fine, So you fill your book with orders, But can you get quit of the ball and chain, Or are you in jail on a railroad train, With blue-coated men for warders? Pg 56 If you sent your samples and cut out the trip, Wouldn't somebody else soon be lugging your grip, I wonder? You are starred on the bills and are chummy with fame; The man on the corner could tell you your name At three o'clock in the morning, But can you depend on the mind of the mob? Can you tell your press-agent to look for a job, Or give your manager warning? Should you...
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