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Arthur Rimbaud - Parisian War Song
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Spring is evidently here; 
for the ascent of Thiers 
and Picard from the green Estates lays 
its splendours wide open! O May! 

What delirious bare bums! 
O Sevres Meudon, Bagneux, Asnieres, 
listen now to the welcome arrivals 
scattering springtime joys!

They have shakos, and sabers, and tom-toms, 
and none of the old candleboxes; 
and skiffs which have nev… nev.. 
are cutting the lake of bloodstained waters. 

More than ever before, we roister, 
as on to our ant-heaps come tumbling the yellow heads, 
on these extraordinary dawns: 
Theirs and Picards are Cupids; 
and beheaders of sunflowers too; 
they paint peaceful landscapes 
(Corots) with insecticide (paraffin): 
look how their tropes de-cockchafer the trees… 
`They`re familiars of the Great What`s-his-name!...` -
And Favre, lying among the irisis, 
blinks and weeps crocodile tears,
and sniffs his peppery sniff! 
The Big City has hot cobblestones,
in spite of your showers of paraffin; 
and decidedly we shall have to liven you up in your parts.. 
And the Rustics who take their ease in long squattings 
will hear boughs breaking among the red rustlings.
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