Blaise Cendrars
from Dix-neuf Poèmes élastiques
F.I.A.T.
Split eardrums
I envy your rest, o factories
anchored like great liners on the edge of town
If only I were as empty
as you are after your parturitions
but these tyres are vexing my back and I have
little red lightbulbs at the end of each nerve
Your beautiful white chamber so functional, metallic
the cradle
the rare noises of
Sainte Clothilde hospital, I am
always fevered
Paris Addresses
O to be in your place
beautiful hairpin bend!
For the first time I envy a woman
I want to be woman
In the universe
In life, to be
and to open oneself to the childlike future
I who am dazed instead
and Blériot-blearied
I get into gear, see?
My pen is cantering,
so beat it!
April 1914
Translated by Cristina Viti
Page(s) 162
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