The Dead And Their Children
Benjamin Péret
For Denise Kahn
If I was some thing
instead of some one
I'd say to Edward's children
give it up
and if they wouldn't give it up
I'd go off into the jungle of magi kings
without boots without my drawers
like a hermit
and there'd certainly be a big animal there
without teeth
with feathers
skinned like a calf
and it would come one night to eat my ears
Hey lord it would say to me
you are a saint among saints
go on take this car
The car was spectacular
eight wheels two engines
and a banana-tree in the middle
that covered up Adam and Eve
making

but that's the subject of another poem
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