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Sunday, November 7, 2021

Tristan Tzara



The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three

here we live the flowers of the clocks catch fire and the plumes encircle the brightness in the distant sulphur morning the cows lick the salt lilies 
my son 
my son 
let us always shuffle through the colour of the world 
which looks bluer than the subway and astronomy 
we are too thin 
we have no mouth 
our legs are stiff and knock together 
our faces are formeless like the stars 
crystal points without strength burned basilica 
mad : the zigzags crack 
telephone 
bite the rigging liquefy 
the arc 
climb 
astral 
memory 
towards the north through its double fruit 
like raw flesh 
hunger fire blood

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