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Johnson 5 Fred Johnson Mayakovsky shot himself (April 14, 1930) "all things yell: 'give us new forms!' and so he created himself, a rare thing. No dim cells or shining towers for him, but Rosta Lef . a new society means a new art and so he put poems on posters, so sweetly rhyming past: Art. and spat on the oh He came here, and hymned Brooklyn Bridge: syllable by syllable he sang the steel: Construct! Construct! not a smug dawdle through the old, dead forms; said Whitman: "I see the constructiveness of my race," and Mayakovsky saw, built. The final rivet was a bullet in the head but even now the majestically swinging bridge sings. ...

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