I'm trying to be like Gertrude Stein

When I read a poet I've never read before, I like to try and get inside his or her head a bit by writing a poem in his or her style. So here's my attempt to be like Gertrude Stein, with all my "they're killing us" intact...

foot note # 40:15

shiny elephant hippopotamus broken bloody split skip
rope
esophagus
filthy hippotopamus tales like tails like see dar's cedars feeders feed
her's
behemoth elephant hippopotamus
phil the phil the fill the philanderer philander her fill and her
philandher phil and her
split body
broken gore apple core