February 18, 2011
Samuel Beckett’s first book, Whoroscope, 1930

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What’s that?                                                                      1
An egg?
By the brother Boot it stinks fresh.
Give it to Gillot.
 
Galileo how are you                                                         5
and his consecutive thirds!
The vile old Copernican lead-swinging son of a sutler!
We’re moving he said we’re off—Porca Madonna!
the way a boatswain would be, or a sack-of-potatoey charging Pretender.
That’s not moving, that’s moving.                              10
 

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