11,121, DOMENICO SCARLATTI AS THE THE FULLER BRUSH MAN

DOMENICO SCARLATTI 

AS THE THE 

FULLER BRUSH MAN

From Portugal and Spain they used

to know my name, and all across the

Naples Bay as well. I prospered swell :

This tinctured sound of music, fairly

scripted and all resounding. Here the

hallowed lands : boom-boom blast. the

Kingdom's soldiers plodded on.

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If second lives these batteries have,

I lived another in the altogether. I

knocked on doors while whistling

tunes  -  it was all I could do in this

much more sluggish age. Now, the

radios play ''classical' music, and I

walk, wondering, if everyone in 

London who had heard the air-raid 

sirens of WWII is not now already 
dead. Hear the hollowed land : 
boom, boom, blast.