lively and loathesome moe’s respectably dead

lively and loathesome moe’s respectably dead

via(the papers are prudent)a heartattack:
dead is the whiteeyed face of,absurdly stuck
to its perfumed piglike body,a shark;and gone

“thiz-iz-un a chuf-tran-zish n” he frequently said

(married a nice gal who’d slaved in a buttonhole fac
tory:did odd jobs;ran errands like crazy,read black
stone every night;and landed skyhigh)no down
and out poor sonofabitch could possibly fail

to get a dollar from moe(“meye sel-veye-wuz poor”)

but nobody doublecrossed him and lived. Somehow
it’s devilish hard to realize we won’t any more
hear his “sew-lawn-gooi eyel bih-seen-gyoo”

which maybe
                     (and Only A Just Judge knows)
                                                                      he will