| 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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