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Milty's Mag, June 1941
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Milty's Mag Page eight _________________________________________ He says to her, I don't like strawberries and cream. She says to him, comes the revolution you will eat strawberries and cream whether you like it or not. Curtain goes down on the first act. The scene of the second act is laid up on the upper levels, in the office of the hero's father. It is very ultra, with huge incandescent tubes flashing on and off, and sparks crackling from point to point, for no good reason at all, as far as anybody can see. There is quite an argument going on as the curtain rises. The father is berating his son for being caught down in the lower levels. That sort of thing just isn't done. "Why were you there, down below? What were you doing, Midst the dirt and the smoke, And those creatures that live there in shame? "Not people, those beasts, That ignorant mob, Who know naught but to slave. Let them stay there, And you stay here, With white men of your kind." "Hah," says the hero. "You know not what you say. You know not what goes on. You stay up here in the light and the bright And speak of what's below. But what is what you do not know And you never think to look. "I saw below a wondrous vision Amidst the crowds that march. Among the workers, grey and black, Was the spark that flares And the light that shines And dazzles my eyes with its glare. "She is the girl I see when I dream Her beauty is not to be told. She is the one whose very name Sets rivers of thermite through my veins. "Her eyes are the blue of copper ions, Like lead chromate is her hair. Her teeth are white like silver chloride, And her lips have that ruddy glare -- That ruddy glare that only comes From mercuric iodide.
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Milty's Mag Page eight _________________________________________ He says to her, I don't like strawberries and cream. She says to him, comes the revolution you will eat strawberries and cream whether you like it or not. Curtain goes down on the first act. The scene of the second act is laid up on the upper levels, in the office of the hero's father. It is very ultra, with huge incandescent tubes flashing on and off, and sparks crackling from point to point, for no good reason at all, as far as anybody can see. There is quite an argument going on as the curtain rises. The father is berating his son for being caught down in the lower levels. That sort of thing just isn't done. "Why were you there, down below? What were you doing, Midst the dirt and the smoke, And those creatures that live there in shame? "Not people, those beasts, That ignorant mob, Who know naught but to slave. Let them stay there, And you stay here, With white men of your kind." "Hah," says the hero. "You know not what you say. You know not what goes on. You stay up here in the light and the bright And speak of what's below. But what is what you do not know And you never think to look. "I saw below a wondrous vision Amidst the crowds that march. Among the workers, grey and black, Was the spark that flares And the light that shines And dazzles my eyes with its glare. "She is the girl I see when I dream Her beauty is not to be told. She is the one whose very name Sets rivers of thermite through my veins. "Her eyes are the blue of copper ions, Like lead chromate is her hair. Her teeth are white like silver chloride, And her lips have that ruddy glare -- That ruddy glare that only comes From mercuric iodide.
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