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The End of World War One Out of the scraped surface of the land men began to emerge, like puppies from the slit of their dam. Up from the trenches they came out upon the pitted, raw earth wobbling as if new-born. They could not believe they would be allowed to live, the orders had come down: no more killing. They approached the enemy, holding out chocolate and cigarettes. They shook hands, exchanged souvenirs--mess-kits, neckerchiefs. Some even embraced, while in London total strangers copulated in doorways and on the pavement, in the ecstasy of being reprieved. Nine months later, like men emerging from the trenches, first the head, then the body, there were lifted, newborn, from these mothers, the soldiers of World War Two. ↗
Ninja beats pirate. Pirate beats ghost. Ghost beats zombie. Zombie beats most. Werewolf beats vampire. Vamp beats Imp. Imp beats fiend. Fiend beats wimp. Wizard beats cyrborg. Cyborg surely beats troll. Troll beats goblin. Goblin eats a hermit’s soul. Hermit beats child. Child beats wagon. Wagon beats moon snake. Moon snake beats dragon. Dragon beats hydra. Hydra beats sailor. Sailor beats teacher. Teacher beats tailor. Tailor beats sun worm. Sun worm beats clown. Clown beats robo-squid. Robo-squid beats town. Town fights jackals. Town will win. Town fights mummies. Town won’t fight again. Zookeeper beats hell hound. Hell hound beats giant. Giant beats accountant. Accountant beats client. Client beats frog. Frog beats himself. Knight beats Big Foot. Big Foot beats elf. Elf beats pixie. Pixie beats specter. Specter beats sea hag. Sea hag beats Hector. Hector beats serpent. Serpent beats rat. Rat beats Grandma. Grandma beats cat. Lava beats demon. Demon beats warlock. Warlock beats dinosaur. Dino beats Spock. Spock beats Lando. Lando beats Qui-Gon. Qui-Gon beats Jar-Jar. Jar-Jar beats none. Rock beats scissors. Scissors beat paper. Paper beats insect. Insect beats vapor. Wood Woman beats Tree Man. Tree Man beats the dark. The dark kills spider-fish. Spider-fish beats shark. You beat me. I beat a dentist. The dentist beats the barber. The barber is menaced. These are the rules, and never forget. Now hand over your money and place your bet. ↗
Mestre, meu mestre querido! Coração do meu corpo intelectual e inteiro! Vida da origem da minha inspiração! Mestre, que é feito de ti nesta forma de vida? Não cuidaste se morrerias, se viverias, nem de ti nem de nada, Alma abstrata e visual até aos ossos, Atenção maravilhosa ao mundo exterior sempre múltiplo, Refúgio das saudades de todos os deuses antigos, Espírito humano da terra materna, Flor acima do dilúvio da inteligência subjetiva... Mestre, meu mestre! Na angústia sensacionista de todos os dias sentidos, Na mágoa quotidiana das matemáticas de ser, Eu, escravo de tudo como um pó de todos os ventos, Ergo as mãos para ti, que estás longe, tão longe de mim! Meu mestre e meu guia! A quem nenhuma coisa feriu, nem doeu, nem perturbou, Seguro como um sol fazendo o seu dia involuntariamente, Natural como um dia mostrando tudo, Meu mestre, meu coração não aprendeu a tua serenidade. Meu coração não aprendeu nada. Meu coração não é nada, Meu coração está perdido. Mestre, só seria como tu se tivesse sido tu. Que triste a grande hora alegre em que primeiro te ouvi! Depois tudo é cansaço neste mundo subjetivado, Tudo é esforço neste mundo onde se querem coisas, Tudo é mentira neste mundo onde se pensam coisas, Tudo é outra coisa neste mundo onde tudo se sente. Depois, tenho sido como um mendigo deixado ao relento Pela indiferença de toda a vila. Depois, tenho sido como as ervas arrancadas, Deixadas aos molhos em alinhamentos sem sentido. Depois, tenho sido eu, sim eu, por minha desgraça, E eu, por minha desgraça, não sou eu nem outro nem ninguém. Depois, mas por que é que ensinaste a clareza da vista, Se não me podias ensinar a ter a alma com que a ver clara? Por que é que me chamaste para o alto dos montes Se eu, criança das cidades do vale, não sabia respirar? Por que é que me deste a tua alma se eu não sabia que fazer dela Como quem está carregado de ouro num deserto, Ou canta com voz divina entre ruínas? Por que é que me acordaste para a sensação e a nova alma, Se eu não saberei sentir, se a minha alma é de sempre a minha? Prouvera ao Deus ignoto que eu ficasse sempre aquele Poeta decadente, estupidamente pretensioso, Que poderia ao menos vir a agradar, E não surgisse em mim a pavorosa ciência de ver. Para que me tornaste eu? Deixasses-me ser humano! Feliz o homem marçano Que tem a sua tarefa quotidiana normal, tão leve ainda que pesada, Que tem a sua vida usual, Para quem o prazer é prazer e o recreio é recreio, Que dorme sono, Que come comida, Que bebe bebida, e por isso tem alegria. A calma que tinhas, deste-ma, e foi-me inquietação. Libertaste-me, mas o destino humano é ser escravo. Acordaste-me, mas o sentido de ser humano é dormir. ↗
The Fallen It was the night a comet with its silver tail fell through darkness to earth's eroded field, the night I found the wolf, starved in metal trap, teeth broken from pain's hard bite, its belly swollen with unborn young. In our astronomy the Great Wolf lived in the sky. It was the mother of all women and howled her daughter's names into the winds of night. But the new people, whatever stepped inside their shadow, they would kill, whatever crossed their path, they came to fear. In their science, Wolf as not the mother. Wolf was not wind. They did not learn healing from her song. In their stories Wolf was the devil, falling down an empty, shrinking universe, God's Lucifer with yellow eyes that had seen their failings and knew that they could kill the earth, that they would kill each other. That night I threw the fallen stone back to sky and falling stars and watched it all come down to ruined earth again. Sky would not take back what it had done. That night, sky was a wilderness so close the eerie light of heaven and storming hands of sun reached down the swollen belly and dried up nipples of a hungry world. That night, I saw the trapper's shadow and it had four legs. ↗
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home. ↗
She winced and covered her ears as Eric,onstage, wrestled with his microphone. "Sorry about that, guys!" he yelled. "All right. I'm Eric, and this is my homeboy Matt on the drums. My first poem is called 'Untitled.'" He screwed up his face as if in pain, and wailed into the mike. "Come my faux juggernaut, my nefarious loins! Slather every protuberance with arid zeal!" Simon slid down in his seat. "Please don't tell anyone I know him." Clary giggled. "Who uses the word 'loins'?" "Eric," Simon said grimly. "All his poems have loins in them." 'Turgid is my torment!" Eric wailed. "Agony swells within!" "You bet it does," Clary said. ↗
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! ↗
It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally. ↗
Did I live the spring I’d sought? It’s true in joy, I walked along, took part in dance, and sang the song. and never tried to bind an hour to my borrowed garden bower; nor did I once entreat a day to slumber at my feet. Yet days aren’t lulled by lyric song, like morning birds they pass along, o’er crests of trees, to none belong; o’er crests of trees of drying dew, their larking flight, my hands, eschew Thus I’ll say it once and true… From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered. ↗
