A Prince was vexed at having devoted himself
only to the perfection of ordinary generosities.
He foresaw astonishing revolutions of love
...
I spend my life sitting - like an angel
in the hands of a barber - a deeply fluted beer mug
in my fist, belly and neck curved,
...
That bright-eyed and brown-skinned youth,
The fine twenty-year body that should go naked,
That, brow circled with copper, under the moon,
...
I.
_Sunday_
Problems put by, the inevitable descent of heaven
and the visit of memories and the assembly
...
The ancient beasts bred even on the run,
their glans encrusted with blood and excrement.
Our forefathers displayed their members proudly
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Idle youth
Enslaved to everything,
By being too sensitive
I have wasted my life.
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Eternal Undines, split the pure water.
Venus, sister of azure, stir up the clear wave.
Wandering Jews of Norway, tell me of snow;
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Come, the Wines are off to the seaside,
and the waves by the million!
Look at wild Bitter rolling from the mountain tops!
...
I.
O the enormous avenues of the Holy Land,
the temple terraces!
What has become of the Brahman
...
One of the voices
Always angelic -
It is about me, -
Sharply expresses itself :
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