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Monday, November 1, 2021

Benjamin Peret

 


My Late Misfortunes
 
          
to Yves Tanguy
 
 
 270  The birches are worn out by mirrors
 441  The young pope lights a candle and disrobes
 905  How many corpses lie on the softest mass grave
1097  The eyes of the strongest
        carried off by the last storm
1371  The old may have forbidden the young
        to reach the desert
1436  First memory of pregnant women
1525  The foot dozes in a bronze jar
1668  The heart stripped to the aorta
        emigrates from east to west
1793  A map watches and waits for
        The dice
1800  Varnish surely it’s about something else
1845  Caressing the chin and washing the breasts
1870  It snows in the devil’s stomach
1900  Children of invalids
        had their beards trimmed
1914  You will find oil that’s not for you
1922  We burn the phone book Place de l’Opéra
 
 
 
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