Let's Butcher It Butcher It
Benjamin Péret
For Suzanne Muzard
There are lines on the map
they call them gulfs
The children put frogs there
which their parents go looking for
to teach them life
civilization
and to make them understand their duty to country

Needless to say the frogs don't give a fuck

One day or another
a soldier and a farmer's wife
will make love in front of the hens
who die from it
and on their graves a skinny little ass will be born
that will know how to dance the Boston
This will be their punishment

A soldier and a farmer's wife

DIFFERENT MEAT DELIGHTS THE PIG

the camel pig
the streetcar camel
the paper streetcar

If a bandit passed by there
you'd see the soldier's eyes
dilate like a captive balloon
and the hands of the farmer's wife
covered with farmers
But this won't happen won't happen won't happen
and that's a shame
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