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DAILY'S MUSICAL COMEDY/ GAIETY CHORUS GIRL/ TONKS
CURSE
the flabby sky that can manufacture no snow, but/ can only
drop the sea on us in drizzle like a poem by Mr. Robert Bridges,

CURSE/ the lazy air that cannot stiffen the back of the SERPENTINE,
or put Aquatic steel half way down the MANCHESTER CANAL.
But ten years ago we saw distinctly both snow and/ ice here.
May some vulgarly inventive, but useful person, arise,

and restore to us the necessary BLIZZARDS!
LET US ONCE MORE WEAR THE ERMINE
OF THE NORTH.

WE BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF
THIS USEFUL LITTLE CHEMIST
IN OUR MIDST!

(skrevet af fra første del af manifestet i fascimile-udgave af første nummer (af kun 2) af BLAST, købt ved vorticsime-udstillingen i Tate Britain)

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BLAST First (from politeness) ENGLAND
CURSE ITS CLIMATE FOR ITS SINS AND INFECTIONS
DISMAL SYMBOL, SET round our bodies
of effiminate lout within

VICTORIAN VAMPIRE, the LONDON cloud
sucks the TOWN'S heart.
A 1000 MILE LONG, 2 KILOMETER Deep
BODY OF WATER even, is pushed against us

from the Floridas, TO MAKE US MILD
OFFICIOUS MOUNTAINS keep back DRASTIC WINDS
SO MUCH VAST MACHINERY TO PRODUCE

THE CURATE of "Eltham"/ BRITANNIC ÆSTHETE
WILD NATURE CRANK/ DOMESTICATED POLICEMAN
LONDON COLISEUM/ SOCIALIST-PLAYWRIGHT