Blaise Cendrars
from Nineteen Elastic Poems
11 Bombay-Express
The things that I’ve seen
Have cured me of any notions of suicide
Everything’s jumping
O high-heels and rollerskates
Music under my finger-nails
Taxis straining outside station doors
I never liked Andy Warhol
Reserve a particular aversion for Jeff Koons
Enough of art and artists
Ballyhoo and bridges
Pistons and trombones
The more light that enters my head
The less I pretend to know or comprehend
Only that your caress
Sets my heart fluttering like an atlas
This year or the next
Art-criticism is as silly as Esperanto
Le Havre or Brindisi or Folkestone
Goodbye goodbye
There are whims as muscular as pole-vaulters
Let me carry you away
You whose laughter turns the whole world vermilion
Translated by Martin Bennett
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