Painting by Lea Kellymoon falls in shape of little metal plates against my face
a slender lurid black whore dances foxtrots backs of heads
.................................................................... bob up & down
bloodnaked half the barroom’s bodies torn apart
I..........................You...................Greenbrown
..............We..................................................... White
.........................................Nothing
white napkins cut me cut you cut all there is in two
electric lights burn shamelessly into your body parts
gawk gawk gawk
........ here & there an arm sticks up
........here & there a hand grabs hold
........here & there a finger pulses
........glimmers glitters & makes light
........ A JOKE
a paradise of toads at night
these figures crowded into separateness
phenomena of push & pull
Gigantic Toad
“And now?”
Greedily as we slurp these things down
we eat each other up
we eat knives saucers plates
we eat lamps tables chairs
we eat men women things
........o hunger stirred by feastings in the founts of night
I greet your small blind everlastingness
& through my rigid jaws drink God’s green blood
Theo Van Doesburg
Translated from the Dutch by Jerome Rothenberg
Posted over on Poems & Poetics
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