D. H. LAWRENCE
MAN AND BAT
•f IT 7 hen I went into my room, at mid-morning,
^    Say ten o'clock	
My room, a crash-box over that great stone rattle
The Via de' Bardi	
When I went into my room at mid-morning,	5
Why?	a bird!
A bird
Flying round the room in insane circles.
In insane circles!
	..A bat!	10
A disgusting bat
At mid-morning!	
Out! Go out!
Round and round and round
With a twitchy, nervous, intolerable flight,	je
And a neurasthenic lunge,
And an impure, frenzy;
A bat, big as a swallow.
Out, out of my room !
The Venetian shutters I push wide	ao
To the free, calm upper air;
Loop back the curtains	
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