Wikipedia Poem, No. 741
“For the entertainment of his guests, Nero would illuminate his whole garden with bodies of live Christians covered in burning oil and strung up on flaming crosses, crucified. At dinner he would have the Christians rubbed by his guards with aromatic herbs and garlic and sewn up into sacks and then they’d throw these sacks to the dogs.”
“That’s terrible.”
“It’s horrible.”
“Terrible, is what it is.”
report every word of mouth
swear vow word statement crack
word of mouth swear vow word
put in word
word
word say-so
word
byword word it verbalism aphorism
aphorism
aphorism
aphorism
aphorism
aphorism
aphorism
aphorism
vow
avow
prayer
"Learn to predict a fire with unerring precision.
Then burn the house down to fulfill the prediction."
word style
utterance style
pledge style
trough style
the spoken words to expression
express give declaration
expression affirmation: nn
word words to mot d'ordre
communication remark statement avouch
saw the word in half
saw saying sentence: nn
affirmation expression
verbalize conceive
saw saying
positive statement
solemn declaration
solemn golem
solum galam
"La pistola che ho puntato sulla tempia si chiama Poesia."
Sources:
- Jarmusch, Jim, Demetra J. MacBride, Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, Mili Avital, Crispin Glover, Iggy Pop, Billy B. Thornton, Jared Harris, Gabriel Byrne, John Hurt, Alfred Molina, Robert Mitchum, Robby Müller, Jay Rabinowitz, and Neil Young. Dead Man. 1996.
- Miłosz, Czesław. New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001. New York, N.Y: Ecco, 2003, pp. 83-87.
- Merini, Alda, and Ambrogio Borsani. Il Suono Dell’ombra: Poesie E Prose 1953-2009. Milano: Mondadori, 2010, p. 1007.