Fear death by water.

[rwx]

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Is a bit cold, nevertheless
Is known to be the fishiest wife in Europe,
With a wicked pack of cods. Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor,
(Those are tuna that were on ice. Look!)
Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,
The lady of situations.

Comments

[wire-mother.livejournal.com]

if TS Eliot had been from a New England fishing village instead of St. Louis?

[fritterfae.livejournal.com]

Funny, I don't remember Eliot reading that way. :D