menses n. pl. monthly discharge of blood, etc., from womb.

mesode n. part of ode between strophe and antistrophe.

meralgia n. neuralgia of thigh.

mephitis n. foul exhalation from earth; stink.

(Slang and Hard Talk)

Chicago lightning-gunfire

Dip the bill-take a drink

Grape-liquor

Cough yourself off-beat it

Eel juice-liquor

Creased, bent- knocked off, also stolen

Circulation drops-drinks

Lip-lawyer

Squibbed off-shot

New sweet-new girl

Giver her hello-say hello to her

Kick the joint-break in

Under glass-in prison, caught

- R.Chandler

‘As far as I am concerned, a mind’s arrangement with regard to certain objects is even more important than its regard for certain arrangements of objects, these two kinds of arrangement controlling between them all forms of sensibility.’

- A.Breton

‘Everything is and is new. Only the imagination is undeceived.’

‘Has life its tail in its mouth or its mouth in its tail?’

‘Tradition! The solidarity of life!’

‘Only through the imagination is the advance of intelligence possible, to keep beside growing understanding.’

‘In my life the furniture eats me

the chairs, the floor

the walls

which heard your sobs

drank up my emotion-

they which alone know everything

and snitched on us in the morning’

‘Life’s processes are very simple. One or two moves are made and that is the end. The rest is repetitious.’

- W.C.Williams