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Friday, October 22, 2021

Philippe Soupault

 

André Breton and Philippe Soupault

From 'The Magnetic Fields,' 'Feelings Are Free'

Photograph by Man Ray (1925)

Soupault and Breton, photo by Man Ray (1925)
THE HERMIT CRAB SAYS:  FEELINGS ARE FREE

 

Trace smell of sulfur

Public health swamp

Red of criminal lips

Quick-march brine

Whim of monkeys

Day-colored clock

 

THEY APPLAUD

 

Heat of locomotives in their Sunday best

Overcoats of prostitutes

Marine moon problem

Solid meridians beehive

Calomel of childhoods at the theater

Blue countrysides

There are three inhabitants

Flying fish in love with the stars

Beard of rivers languor

Occident

Thousand years compass

Psychologist pharmacists are a public danger

Rage of Chicago factories

Ritual

Men love the paleness of animals

 

TRANSLATED BY. CHARLOTTE MANDELL

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