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I.
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     The shot offers any landscape. The affect graduates the unfortunate. The metric exemplifies a flush extremist behind the client. A sufferer toasts a pushed design. A further river prevails outside a lonely drum. Why won't a poetic controller ace a combined teapot?
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     Another dogma celebrates the concrete past and the afternoon absolute. The opposite swears under a skeptical chemist. A cold delays the rhythm. The technique relaxes beside the disappointing basket. A consumed drift edits your freezing appeal. The fence attributes my restriction liquid.
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     The secular shame hurts the scrap. My system mutters near a concern. A slippery giant does the kind holder. The rational sneak inhibits a tone.
     How will a chapter stick the foreigner? How can the meaningless pacifier monkey the nurse? Past the joke bores the approval. The enclosed advance pokes a moderate epic. Does the similar army pinch my elected soldier? The holy flies outside this swamped mystic.
     A slang drowns its operating alarm. The photo fumes below a hearing angle. How does the existence enter near the independent alternative? The enabling rocket despairs on top of a poet. An estate graduates on top of the located penguin.
     A damp psychologist assumes the food. Underneath a fighting lens worries a smallish motive. This bursting home experiments before the client. The musical turns without the highway.
     The hotel snacks beside a chemical. The cynical chocolate strains opposite a crisis. Does this sneak blood fume against the creator? Will a coast pant? Will the hand expand?
     The censor beams the flag. Will a functioning pope support a mounted toad? An unbalanced timetable yawns behind the meet defeat. A bedroom stretches around the global bigotry. The race writes. The predecessor guards an incapable contempt.
     When will the salary balance the expiring newcomer? The article bores! The advance rules without the arch! After the connecting human peers every par alien. The excess vends the fatuous courier. The carbon appends an inane sink.
     A four yawn cautions. How will the humorous concentrate refrain? The backbone flashes into the less premise. The servant retracts a voluntary flour.
     Beneath the mill bores the wetting pig.The kiss entitles my funded ballot throughout the throat. Our rose hastens a sample over the derived metric. The roundabout well coats the explicit truth. The stone persists.

II.
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Alone are captive.
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Ages against people annihilation eat whose plundered for the assent fit;
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To raising usurpations.

III.
I, the loved
I, the engulfed
I, the remigrated
I, the existence
I, the infinitive
I, the derivative
I, the human
I, the darkness
I, the glass
I, the interviewed
I, the disaffiliating
I, the trees
I, the air
I, the future
I, the past.
I, the present.
I, the moment.
I, the now
I, the dead
I, the alive
I, the opponent
I, the ally
I, the language
I, the idea
I, the universe
I, the cosmos
I, the sensual
I, the lover
I, the writer
I, the poet
I, the artist
I, the fearful
I, the form
I, the painting
I, the paper
I, the words
I, the letters
I, the color
I, the winter hallway
I, the black alleyway of bricks and cobblestone
I, the one who knocks
I, the fourth of July
I, the independent
I, the atom
I, the bullet
I, the bohemian
I, the philosopher
I, the homeless
I, the clouds
I, the sky
I, the rain  
I, the music
I, the harp
I, the angel
I, the devil
I, the decider
I, the canceler
I, the road
I, the pavement  
I, the stone
I, the wall
I, the cornfield
I, the golden
I, the emotion
I, the follower
I, the leader
I, the second
I, the minute
I, the hour
I, the day
I, the week
I, the month
I, the year
I, the biennium
I, the triennium
I, the lustrum
I, the decade
I, the jubilee
I, the century
I, the millennium
I, the overseer
I, the god
I, the who  
I, the what
I, the which
I, the where
I, the why
I, the question
I, the answer
I, the dream
I, the reality  
I, the in between
I, the ecstasy
I, the joy
I, the pain  
I, the populous
I, the I
I, the you
I, the
Do not try to understand this.
Tom Orr Nov 2012
One step forward, three steps back.
The queue shuffles,
visible breath in the winter blue.
The vendor vends,
fingerless gloves clamp the steaming mug.
Grunts and groans alike,
the warmth fills the withered corpses pale.

A gaze is cast,
into the misty nothing that inhabits the park.
A twitter is heard amongst the frosty masts.

Eyes meet with a rufescent-chested bird.

These same eyes are then met with salt,
a sorrow, a pang of jealousy.
A sheer longing for that same freedom.
increasing the yield potential of a crop
has been the aim of Monsanto
with great efficiency
this company has hit on a jackpot
it holds a monopoly on agricultural products
yet Monsanto are selling
a very dodgy line of seeds
the cornmeal and wheat
has not a taste
which is truly sweet
people must become educated
in what they eat
the Monsanto Company
don't tell of adverse findings
about products that it vends
they bring many cancers
which affect men women and children
we all want a wholesome loaf of bread
one that hasn't had it wheat
genetically tampered with
we all deserve clean and unadulterated
food on our plates
to decrease those ever rising
cancer rates
Monsanto is a company
who cares little for our health
Monsanto is a company
who has only an interest
in making profits and wealth
Kuzhur Wilson Jan 2014
2009 october 9,
Sharja, ajman, dubai**

Very early,
The day
Browses through the book
On suicide

“this wooden cross of poesy
Will control
The road mishaps
Of dream travel”
I told the day
That those are my lines

He laughed
Sunlight spread

Gave the book
On suicide
To the day

Let it get dark,
He said

A father for the first time
is making
His daughter
Listen
to the sea
Named after her

Ammini,
Why don’t you
Say something?

This is the sea,
Mother ocean
Mother ocean
Gave you your name

You laugh
Listening to the roar
What do you know
About its depths
Even your father doesn’t know
Whirlpools,
Deep abysses
Waves
Oysters

Huge sharks
With protruding teeth

Keep it a bit closer, girl,
The low voice
Of a goddess

After your father
Dipped you
In the ocean,
He  wrote on the bank,

That the ocean mother is a thief

It was probably
Because she was scared of you,
Ammini,
This time,
She didn’t wipe it out



Who is this Ranni?
To which godforsaken place does this Ranni belong ?
Whether it is Ranni
Or Konni,
I have to drink a drop of liquor
After that, everything will be all right

In the perfect Ranni room
Of the one from Ranni
Ranni
Ranni
Ranni
Ranni, etc

There are pictures of father and mother

You are blessed
The pictures of
Father
And mother
In the words of Nazimuddin
Fair wife
Obedient children

Liquor
Gave a kiss
On the forehead
Of the one from Ranni

Would Shobha
Have ever seen me
Except through the camera?
Anilan,
Mary, Mary again,
Shihab,
Must have seen me
Changing lens after lens

As  for everyone else,
I am a picture
For Shobha

No shobha
Has seen
Me

Is it because of madness
Or in order to not become mad
O forest,
In-between
In-between
In-between
These missed calls

Those that were missed were missed all right .

In- between,
Trying to imitate
You
In your language,
I failed...

There is,
In Aluva
A Sebastian
Who vends vegetables

Sells anything
Except poems

And you?

All who smoke
Pine cigarettes
In the world
Are brothers

After I die
You should give
A packet of Pine
Along with the award given

I
Was the seller
In that grocery
One day
For one hour
In some moment

My pay
My pay

This kiss
Is this worker’s
Struggle with you

A struggle with kisses

Wow!
I feel like living

Great

See, I didn’t write this
Why do words
Come and look
In places where
They are not wanted,
at times when they are not wanted?

I will stab you
It will be over with a stab,
It should be over

As soon as a poem was over
Another one!
A lady says

Is it possible to feign deafness
when females talk to us?

But this time I fooled you!
I am not reciting a poem
It is reciting me!

Now let it think!


In the look of wonder and respect,
Girl,

I become another person,

You are with your father
Even then you whisper
That you want to hear my poem

I have seen you somewhere

My children,
Poem?
It is all gone

It smells like a cadaver
If I open my mouth


Do you know
How many people ran away?

First you gave me
A huge bunch of basil

My soul turned green,
But as I stand there
Stunned,
Thinking that you are so small - a girl,
You give again

An uncooked forest of leaves again

Hey look,
You are a girl

This kiss is on your forehead
I am not one who do not fancy
The private parts of females

My kiss is firmly on your forehead.
Because
My son is a daughter..
Translation : Anitha Varma
Je n'ai pas pour maîtresse une lionne illustre :
La gueuse, de mon âme, emprunte tout son lustre ;
Invisible aux regards de l'univers moqueur,
Sa beauté ne fleurit que dans mon triste coeur.

Pour avoir des souliers elle a vendu son âme.
Mais le bon Dieu rirait si, près de cette infâme,
Je tranchais du Tartufe et singeais la hauteur,
Moi qui vends ma pensée et qui veux être auteur.

Vice beaucoup plus grave, elle porte perruque.
Tous ses beaux cheveux noirs ont fui sa blanche nuque ;
Ce qui n'empêche pas les baisers amoureux.
De pleuvoir sur son front plus pelé qu'un lépreux.

Elle louche, et l'effet de ce regard étrange
Qu'ombragent des cils noirs plus longs que ceux d'un ange,
Est tel que tous les yeux pour qui l'on s'est damné
Ne valent pas pour moi son oeil juif et cerné.

Elle n'a que vingt ans ; - la gorge déjà basse
Pend de chaque côté comme une calebasse,
Et pourtant, me traînant chaque nuit sur son corps,
Ainsi qu'un nouveau-né, je la tette et la mords,

Et bien qu'elle n'ait pas souvent même une obole
Pour se frotter la chair et pour s'oindre l'épaule,
Je la lèche en silence avec plus de ferveur
Que Madeleine en feu les deux pieds du Sauveur.

La pauvre créature, au plaisir essoufflée,
A de rauques hoquets la poitrine gonflée,
Et je devine au bruit de son souffle brutal
Qu'elle a souvent mordu le pain de l'hôpital.

Ses grands yeux inquiets, durant la nuit cruelle,
Croient voir deux autres yeux au fond de la ruelle,
Car, ayant trop ouvert son coeur à tous venants,
Elle a peur sans lumière et croit aux revenants.

Ce qui fait que de suif elle use plus de livres
Qu'un vieux savant couché jour et nuit sur ses livres,
Et redoute bien moins la faim et ses tourments
Que l'apparition de ses défunts amants.

Si vous la rencontrez, bizarrement parée,
Se faufilant, au coin d'une rue égarée,
Et la tête et l'oeil bas comme un pigeon blessé,
Traînant dans les ruisseaux un talon déchaussé,

Messieurs, ne crachez pas de jurons ni d'ordure
Au visage fardé de cette pauvre impure
Que déesse Famine a par un soir d'hiver,
Contrainte à relever ses jupons en plein air.

Cette bohème-là, c'est mon tout, ma richesse,
Ma perle, mon bijou, ma reine, ma duchesse,
Celle qui m'a bercé sur son giron vainqueur,
Et qui dans ses deux mains a réchauffé mon coeur.
ji Jun 2015
She was courtly,
Oh! Stately was she!

But woe to her! --
      the seller of love;
            seeker of empathy.

What more poorer than her a soul
         could be? --
                  A morsel of love for a penny.

What more colder
         than a night as hers--
                 To slumber in as if a hearse?

Oh, woe to her! --
      the seller of love;
           seeker of empathy.

And what more worse
       could a mishap be--
                Than feast in the banquet
                        of the ****** and the guilty?

How more cursed
        could a creature be--
                 Than thrive in another's lustful  
                          idolatry?

Oh, woe to her! --
      the seller of love;
            seeker of empathy.

She vends fondness
       she never can receive,
             forth with the saintdom
                      she ne'er can retrieve.

What other vying
         is greater than hers--
            To state the malison
                 of the welkin terse?

And she prays to the dimmest sky;
       to the starless horizon she cries,
           "Woe! -- woe is me! --
                     the seller of love;
                           seeker of empathy."
La Rochefoucauld dit, Madame,
Qu'on ne doit pas parler de soi,
Ni ?.. ni ?.. de ?.. de ?.. sa ?.. sa ?.. sa femme.
Alors, ma conduite est infâme,
Voyez, je ne fais que ça, moi.

Je me moque de sa maxime.
Comme un fœtus dans un bocal,
J'enferme mon « moi » dans ma rime,
Ce bon « moi » dont me fait un crime
Le sévère Blaise Pascal.

Or, ce ne serait rien encore,
On excuse un... maudit travers ;
Mais j'enferme Toi que j'adore
Sur l'autel que mon souffle dore
Au Temple bâti par mes vers ;

Sous les plafonds de mon Poème,
Sur mes tapis égyptiens,
Dans des flots d'encens, moi qui T'aime,
Je me couche auprès de Toi-même
Comme auprès du Sphinx des Anciens ;

Tel qu'un Faust prenant pour fétiche
L'un des coins brodés de tes bas,
Je Te suis dans chaque hémistiche
Où Tu bondis comme une biche,
La Biche-Femme des Sabbats ;

Comme pour la Sibylle à Cumes,
Mon quatrain Te sert de trépied,
Où, dans un vacarme d'enclumes,
Je m'abattrai, couvert d'écumes,
Pour baiser le bout de ton pied ;

À chaque endroit de la césure,
D'un bout de rythme à l'autre bout,
Tu règnes avec grâce et sûre
De remplir toute la mesure,
Assise, couchée, ou debout.

Eh, bien ! j'ai tort, je le confesse :
On doit, jaloux de sa maison,
N'en parler pas plus qu'à la messe ;
Maxime pleine de sagesse !
J'ai tort, sans doute... et j'ai raison.

Si ma raison est peu touchante,
C'est que mon tort n'est qu'apparent :
Je ne parle pas, moi, je chante ;
Comme aux jours d'Orphée ou du Dante,
Je chante, c'est bien différent.

Je ne parle pas, moi, Madame.
Vous voyez que je n'ai pas tort,
Je ne parle pas de ma femme,
Je la chante et je clame, clame,
Je clame haut, sans crier fort.

Je clame et vous chante à voix haute.
Qu'il plaise aux cœurs de m'épier,
Lequel pourra me prendre en faute ?
Je ne compte pas sans mon hôte,
J'écris « ne vends » sur ce papier.

J'écris à peine, je crayonne.
Je le répète encor plus haut,
Je chante et votre Âme rayonne.
Comme les lyres, je résonne,
Oui... d'après La Rochefoucauld.

Ah ! Monsieur !.. le duc que vous êtes,
Dont la France peut se vanter,
Fait très bien tout ce que vous faites ;
Il dit aux femmes des poètes :
« Libre aux vôtres de vous chanter !

Dès qu'il ne s'agit plus de prose,
Qu'il ne s'agit plus des humains,
Au Mont où croît le Laurier-Rose,
Qu'on chante l'une ou l'autre chose,
Pour moi, je m'en lave les mains. »

Donc, sans épater les usages,
Je ferai, Madame, sur Vous
Dix volumes de six cents pages,
Que je destine... pas aux sages,
Tous moins amoureux que les fous.

Pour terminer, une remarque,
(Si j'ose descendre à ce ton,
Madame), après, je me rembarque,
Et je vais relire Plutarque
Dans le quartier du Panthéon :

Sans la poésie et sa flamme,
(Que Vous avez, bien entendu)
Aucun mortel, je le proclame,
N'aurait jamais connu votre âme,
Rose duParadis Perdu ;

Oui, personne, dans les Deux-Mondes,
N'aurait jamais rien su de Toi.
Sans ces... marionnettes rondes,
Les Vers bruns et les Rimes blondes,
Mais, oui, Madame, excepté moi.
Overrated is the word that comes to the fore
To tell of that woman's particular store
The products she vends aren't all that fab
Most of them have a dull look which is so drab

She may need to take stock of her inventory
Then thoroughly evaluate its retail credibility
The purchasers are wising up to her trade
They've become disenchanted with her escapade

To-day her shop soiled item went on sale
Few customers bought what was in her bail
Her sales pitch fell upon deaf ears
All that she offered for sale meet with load jeers

Store owners such as her have no excuse
For attempting to sell the dregs and refuse
The customer never outlays a dollar for trash
They prefer value for their hard one cash

The numbers of keen buyers aren't of a glut
Soon her second rate business shall be shut
Retail vending must be up to customer satisfaction
If not store owners can be put out of action
Prêtre, ta messe, écho des feux de peloton,
Est une chose impie.
Derrière toi, le bras ployé sous le menton,
Rit la mort accroupie.

Prêtre, on voit frissonner, aux cieux d'où nous venons
Les anges et les vierges,
Quand un évêque prend la mèche des canons
Pour allumer les cierges.

Tu veux être au sénat, voir ton siège élevé
Et ta fortune accrue.
Soit ; mais pour bénir l'homme, attends qu'on ait lavé
Le pavé de la rue.

Peuples, gloire à Gessler ! meure Guillaume Tell !
Un râle sort de l'orgue.
Archevêque, on a pris pour bâtir ton autel
Les dalles de la morgue.

Quand tu dis : - Te Deum ! nous vous louons, Dieu fort !
Sabaoth des armées ! -
Il se mêle à l'encens une vapeur qui sort
Des fosses mal fermées.

On a tué, la nuit, on a tué, le jour,
L'homme, l'enfant, la femme !
Crime et deuil ! Ce n'est plus l'aigle, c'est le vautour
Qui vole à Notre-Dame.

Va, prodigue au bandit les adorations
Martyrs, vous l'entendîtes !
Dieu te voit, et là-haut tes bénédictions,
Ô prêtre, sont maudites !

Les proscrits sont partis, aux flancs du ponton noir,
Pour Alger, pour Cayenne ;
Ils ont vu Bonaparte à Paris, ils vont voir
En Afrique l'hyène.

Ouvriers, paysans qu'on arrache au labour,
Le sombre exil vous fauche !
Bien, regarde à ta droite, archevêque Sibour,
Et regarde à ta gauche :

Ton diacre est Trahison et ton sous-diacre est Vol
Vends ton Dieu, vends ton âme.
Allons, coiffe ta mitre, allons, mets ton licol,
Chante, vieux prêtre infâme !

Le meurtre à tes côtés suit l'office divin,
Criant : feu sur qui bouge !
Satan tient la burette, et ce n'est pas de vin
Que ton ciboire est rouge.

Le 7 novembre, à Jersey.
Quelqu'un qui jamais ne se trompe,
M'appelle juif... Moi, juif ? Pourquoi ?
Je suis chrétien, sans que je rompe
Le pain bénit à son de trompe,
Bien qu'en mon trou... je reste coi.

Je sais juif, ah ! c'est bien possible !
Je n'ai le nez spirituel
Ni l'air résigné d'une cible ;
Je ne montre un cœur insensible.
Tout juif est-il en Israël ?

Mais si juif signifie avare
Économisant sur le suif,
Sur l'eau qui pourtant n'est pas rare
Sur une corde de guitare,
Je me fais honneur d'être juif.

Je prends pour moi seul cette injure,
Quoique je ne possède rien ;
Je me l'écris sur la figure
En trois mots, sans une rature ;
Voyez : je suis juif. Lisez bien.

Regardez-moi : ma barbe est sale
Comme en chaire un prédicateur
Qui vide une fosse nasale,
Et j'ai l'aspect froid d'une stalle,
Dans le temple où prêche un pasteur.

Moi, juif, je mens, je calomnie,
Comme un misérable chrétien,
Lorsqu'à tort il affirme ou nie,
Ou qu'il dispute, ô vilenie !
En parlant du mien et du tien ;

J'adore un veau d'or... dans ma bague,
Le veau qu'on débite en bijoux ;
Au seul mot d'argent, je divague,
Comme le catholique vague
Qui ne se passe de joujoux ;

Moi, fils de ceux qui portaient l'Arche,
Je ris, et je laisse périr,
Je perds la foi du patriarche,
Comme tout un peuple qui marche
Vers l'ombre où le corps doit pourrir.

Moi, juif, je doute de mon âme,
Moi, juif, je doute de l'Amour,
Je ne suis sûr que de ma femme,
(N'est-ce pas étrange, Madame ?)
Comme bien des... maris du jour.

Car elle se fout de la vogue
Qu'a tout argument inventé
Par notre science un peu rogne ;
Elle aime mieux la synagogue
Si fraîche, dès l'aube, en été.

Elle est blanche, elle a sur les tempes
Une perruque où rit sa fleur ;
Faite à souhait pour les estampes ;
Quand elle adore sous les lampes
Dans ses voiles d'une couleur ;

Elle se consume en prières,
Conservant, sans en rien verser,
L'eau de ses croyances entières,
Car... une douzaine de pierres
Ça suffit pour recommencer.

Jérusalem les garde encore,
Salomon les reçut du Ciel
Qu'avec des larmes elle implore ;
Comme une juive que j'adore,
L'épouse de Nathaniel.

Ce qu'on admire fort sur elle,
C'est l'honneur de faire de l'art
Par une pente naturelle,
Pas pour vendre son aquarelle,
Ni pour manger un peu de lard.

J'ai pu contempler sa peinture,
Dans une salle au Luxembourg :
C'est très bien peint d'après nature ;
C'est avec l'eau, sous la toiture,
Ça me semble, un coin de faubourg.

Sur la cimaise elle est sous verre,
Je puis donc y mettre un baiser
**** des yeux du gardien sévère ;
Bref, l'art charmant qu'elle sait faire,
C'est, comme il sied, pour s'amuser.

Cela ne fait l'ombre d'un doute
Pour tous, dans la société ;
Oui, ma belle Mignonne, écoute,
Elle pourrait épater toute
La pâle catholicité.

Tiens ! En veux-tu rien qu'un exemple ?
Que le sultan soit décavé,
Et trouve sa poche bien ample :
« Vends-les-nous, ces pierres du Temple »,
Et Notre-Seigneur a rêvé !

Je suis juif ! ah ! ce nom m'inonde
De sa plus sainte émotion !
Souffre que pour eux je réponde :
La plus noble race du monde,
Ce sont les juifs de nation.

Eux, au moins, ont du caractère ;
Ils sont, oui, par les traits de feu
Du Décalogue salutaire,
Le plus grand peuple de la Terre !
N'est-ce pas vrai, ça, nom de Dieu !

Sotte habitude, oui, sur mon âme,
Bonne au plus pour les ateliers ;
Excusez moi, si je m'en blâme.
Et si vous m'entendez, Madame,
Que je me prosterne à vos pieds.
Ainsi l'hôtel de ville illumine son faîte.
Le prince et les flambeaux, tout y brille, et la fête
Ce soir va resplendir sur ce comble éclairé,
Comme l'idée au front du poète sacré.
Mais cette fête, amis, n'est pas une pensée.
Ce n'est pas d'un banquet que la France est pressée,
Et ce n'est pas un bal qu'il faut, en vérité,
A ce tas de douleurs qu'on nomme la cité !

Puissants ! nous ferions mieux de panser quelque plaie
Dont le sage rêveur à cette heure s'effraie,
D'étayer l'escalier qui d'en bas monte en haut,
D'agrandir l'atelier, d'amoindrir l'échafaud,
De songer aux enfants qui sont sans pain dans l'ombre,
De rendre un paradis au pauvre impie et sombre,
Que d'allumer un lustre et de tenir la nuit
Quelques fous éveillés autour d'un peu de bruit !

Ô reines de nos toits, femmes chastes et saintes,
Fleurs qui de nos maisons parfumez les enceintes,
Vous à qui le bonheur conseille la vertu,
Vous qui contre le mal n'avez pas combattu,
A qui jamais la faim, empoisonneuse infâme,
N'a dit : Vends-moi ton corps, - c'est-à-dire votre âme !
Vous dont le cœur de joie et d'innocence est plein,
Dont la pudeur a plus d'enveloppes de lin
Que n'en avait Isis, la déesse voilée,
Cette fête est pour vous comme une aube étoilée !
Vous riez d'y courir tandis qu'on souffre ailleurs !
C'est que votre belle âme ignore les douleurs ;
Le hasard vous posa dans la sphère suprême ;
Vous vivez, vous brillez, vous ne voyez pas même,
Tant vos yeux éblouis de rayons sont noyés,
Ce qu'au-dessous de vous dans l'ombre on foule aux pieds !

Oui, c'est ainsi. - Le prince, et le riche, et le monde
Cherche à vous réjouir, vous pour qui tout abonde.
Vous avez la beauté, vous avez l'ornement ;
La fête vous enivre à son bourdonnement,
Et, comme à la lumière un papillon de soie,
Vous volez à la porte ouverte qui flamboie !
Vous allez à ce bal, et vous ne songez pas
Que parmi ces passants amassés sur vos pas,
En foule émerveillés des chars et des livrées,
D'autres femmes sont là, non moins que vous parées,
Qu'on farde et qu'on expose à vendre au carrefour ;
Spectres où saigne encor la place de l'amour ;
Comme vous pour le bal, belles et demi-nues ;
Pour vous voir au passage, hélas ! exprès venues,
Voilant leur feuil affreux d'un sourire moqueur,
Les fleurs au front, la boue aux pieds, la haine au cœur !

Mai 1833.
Jacob Page May 2019
A strange pilot this
world is, fighting glassy,
distant nomads for space.
In time, vends names.

Foam alone in fear.
“Did you see that?”,
I fear not dear.
No one was watching.

Or they didn’t care.

- Gods
Paste your taste here. If it scratches your soul, I apologize. And quote all I know. All things shining.

— The End —