Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three

By Tristan Tzara

where we live the flowers of the clocks catch fire and the plumes encircle the brightness in the distant sulphur morning the cows lick the salt lilies

my son

my son

let us always shuffle through the colour of the world

which looks bluer than the subway and astronomy

we are too thin

we have no mouth

our legs are stiff and knock together

our faces are formeless like the stars

crystal points without strength burned basilica

mad : the zigzags crack

telephone

bite the rigging liquefy

the arc

climb

astral

memory

towards the north through its double fruit

like raw flesh

hunger fire blood