“My word / Hand caught in the door / Stuck tight old boy stuck tight”
‘Safety Lock’ by Louis Aragon
My word Hand caught in the door Stuck tight old boy stuck tight In other words Or The password please Many thanks Now I hold the key The bolt begins to twist like a tongue Therefore
Trans. Michael Benedikt
Source: Aragon, Louis. “Safety Lock.”The Poetry of Surrealism, edited by Michael Benedikt. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1974, p. 151.
Photo: Gerace, Joe. “Stuck Tight Old Boy Stuck Tight” Nov. 14, 2020. JPG.
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even when he locked away the dark it’s nobody’s job
see his
girlfriend arranging purple
chrysanthemums
it’s nobody’s job to arrange these boots and expensive watches purple chrysanthemums
the time sneaks off in his long black hair he is dead
sergio buys handmade leaf smoke voiding his boys
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“He said I was fooling I am not a tree and he dropped his leaves.” Russell Edson
annie besant
you
motherfuckers
should see my notebooks re-
surrealismo
a word near athens
admit your
feelings high
above
new
york
women
begin new
reign of terror olly
found this among theosophy bathing in paint thinner
invite the unknown he was crying
and so
i cried
and
i cried
and so i cried
she's getting thinner watch it
in that particular place
at that precise instant
virtue in late fall sniff
modernism rhyme disappear
from poetry sometime in late fall sniff
jealousy
the primary output of modernism
rhyme disappears from poetry sometime next week
early winter is that sunrise
or sunset culture moving
thereby the young reproduce like culture
and naive move along high-end users
ibid
originality the key party of modernism
rhymes with commerce
disappears from poetry sometime in late winter
when on average users taste drambuie and tang
in 1910 if surrealism happened today in early spring
it would be over in a logarithmic curve
along with technology's potted hipsterism
ibid originality
ibid fetish object
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ibid modernism
ibid rhyme