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‘Royalty’ by Arthur Rimbaud, trans. John Ashbery
Royauté Un beau matin, chez un peuple fort doux, un homme et une femme superbes criaient sur la place publique. «Mes amis, je veux qu’elle soit reine!» «Je veux être reine!» Elle riait et tremblait. Il parlait aux amis de révélation, d’épreuve terminée. Ils se pâmaient lun contre l’autre. En effet ils furent rois toute…
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Poem after Personals in The New York Review of Books (Soumettre à une Interrogation)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 798 man seeks unattached heart woman seeks mature gent mannattached heart woman seek/soumettre intellectual secure companionship vibrant as a travel agent que vigoureux cherche femme sachant que vigoureux cherche femme sachant la vie nous délaisser for relationship for travel for heat vibrant que vigoureux chercheur femme sachant que vigoureux cherche femme sachant…
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Superficial Missus
Wikipedia Poem, No. 494 aluminum ice pix too big how exotic your shoulders your nose how big too exotic in this picture you’re stock art when is too big or how is exotic your nose in this shot connects to its hips you’re using to click the internet has something to tell you its hip its using your…
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‘Another variation of formlessness’
“Isn’t the most profound education the one that was afforded me at my childhood elementary school, the one that divides the ink sharply between thought become Letter and drive turned into splotches and blots? How will those who begin with the darkish gray on the palish gray of computer screens manage? Without the slightest inkblot?…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 399
impressionner من باید به شما تحت تاثیر قرار دادن debo impresionarte باید به شما تحت تاثیر قرار دادن debo impresionare je dois vous impresionarte dois vous impresionner من باید به شما تحت تاثیر قرار دادن debo impresionarte o impress you devo impresionare je dois vous impresionarte o impress you devo impresionarte o impresionner من باید…
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“The Struggles of Words”, 1928, by Pierre Reverdy
Torment wanders into the light beyond the roof. At midday, without sunlight. The walls are covered with snow, against a gray background. The eye stops and vainly seeks a better path. They’ve rubbed away the designs that gave life to the crumbling walls. Some words raise themselves affirmatively. And the flood, too high, carries off the…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 330
luxure obsolete from the whistling verb float rather the 1660s relay reluctance lasting and first attested sometime around 1661 lather reluctantly wrestle stains see related lasciviousness lust 1520 screams obsolescence the verb first fury related which attests sometime in 1660 the king burns grace which is reluctance latin relates 60 pounds of cake perhaps…
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wikipedia poem, no. 37 [study of “The Raft of the Medusa” for a larger work]
ONE in the coast of the colony the diving ceremony and founding survivors 1816 Méduse first nights black bough of inept navigation and one Arguin General Doom bank of the towering above the text the Britains still promotion received on the Napoleonic Nymphe forced by the colonel Julien-Désiré Schmaltz Medusa the coast Africault’s softening 146…
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