| The Hypochondriac | |||||||||||
| Benjamin Péret | |||||||||||
| I'm the hair made of lead
that falls from a star like a star becoming the comet that will destroy you in a year and a day Right now there's neither year nor day there's an impeccable plant and you'd like to be its equal To be the equal of plants you have to be great during life and staunch in death Thus I'm alone unmoving and mute as a star feet bathing in the clouds that just like mouths condemn me to stay amongst the unmoving beings the plants' despair But one day the insurgent liquids will spew toward the clouds murderous arms wielded by women as blue as the eyes of the north's daughters And that day will take place in a year and a day |
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