A Long Dress

Gertrude Stein

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THAT is the current that makes machinery, that makes it crackle, what is the current that presents a long line and a necessary waist. What is this current.
What is the wind, what is it.

Where is the serene length, it is there and a dark place is not a dark place, only a white and red are black, only a yellow and green are blue, a pink is scarlet, a bow is every color. A line distinguishes it. A line just distinguishes it.

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  • luciennebrose57

    Recall reading Gertrude Stein's enigmatic "serene length" verse in youth.