Blaise Cendrars
from Nineteen Elastic Poems
9 Sputterings
Over the wireless
Rainbowish dissonances
Noon
Midnight
All corners of the universe trading pet expletives
Sparks
Fibre-optic dictionaries
We’re in contact
Clouds like liners
North south east and west
Now near now distant
As bells sound across time-zones
Time becomes a numbered whirr
Paris-Midi announces a German professor has been devoured
by cannibals in the Congo
I drink a toast
The Economist offers poetry-postcards at a price of minus ten Euros
per dozen
A pretty pass when astrologers think they can juggle constellations
No wonder nothing’s clear
I interrogate the heavens
The Weather Centre announces mist and fog
No futurism
No simultaneity
I’m out of here
Like a message in a bottle
I leave this poem for whom it might concern
And for whoever it might not
Translated by Martin Bennett
Page(s) 169
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