Advice: A Book of Poems

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1>ADVICE</h1> <p class="ph3">By MAXWELL BODENHEIM</p> <hr class="chap" /> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">ADVICE TO A STREET-PAVEMENT</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Lacerated grey has bitten</div> <div class="verse">Into your shapeless humility.</div> <div class="verse">Little episodes of roving</div> <div class="verse">Strew their hieroglyphics on your muteness.</div> <div class="verse">Life has given you heavy stains</div> <div class="verse">Like an ointment growing stale.</div> <div class="verse">Endless feet tap over you</div> <div class="verse">With a maniac insistence.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">O unresisting street-pavement,</div> <div class="verse">Keep your passive insolence</div> <div class="verse">At the dwarfs who scorn you with their feet.</div> <div class="verse">Only one who lies upon his back</div> <div class="verse">Can disregard the stars.</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />