1. She asked for her prey, so I said, deceiving,
"This is the butcher's season, not the stationer's."

2. She said, "Oh, stationer, then there'll be no binding."
This saying will split from you, adhesive.

3. Until you make ledgers for me that never
Cease to be burnished with guile and hypocrisy,

4. Or else you'll tear up ledgers where I have
No proceeds in them nor anything left,

5. I said, "Whiteness is the noblest color, so ask"--
She said, "Not even that, absolutely."