Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Author Function



The Author Function
—for Louis Zukofsky

“Je est un autre”
—Arthur Rimbaud
Letter to Izambard
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The surreal slippage
Of authorless control
While dreaming dreams

Tres Rimbaud-esque—
As if we were being dreamed
Rather than dreaming
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One can see why
Andre Breton & all the
Surrealists were perplexed

Their inability to—
Accept “I-am-other”
Je est un autre
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The poet does both—
Dreaming & being dreamed
Simultaneously one

A demystified kid—
Communard as well
As constructionist dude
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Encrapsulation—
Of the crucifix by
Delinquent messiah

Rimbaud as priestly—
Pimp giving his flesh
To the holy pedophile
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Miss Verlaine down on—
His Communion knees
The Cum of Passion

The vaguely immodest boy—
With skimpy loin-cloth
Holy night in the Latrine
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Adolescent voyant—
Jizzy juvenile delinquent
Obdurate objectivist

What Zukofsky did—
With Catullus I will do
With Arthur Rimbaud

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