H e n r i e t t e J e n n y S a v a l e t t e d e L a n g e —
translated by J a c k s o n W a t s o n
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J'ai dit, et la lecture et le charme des vers.
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L'esprit cède à l'erreur, ou le cœur est facile.
Au cri des passions la pensée est docile;
Et l’âme reste en butte à leurs perfides traits,
Si, de l’auguste foi, les sublimes attraits,
Ne la font, en l’ôtant a sa faiblesse extrême,
Dans l'amour de son Dieu trouver le bien suprême.
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MY PLEASURES
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—so there, I’ve told you
about the reading & charm of verse
& I’ve given you tidbits of autobiography
so what more could you want? Kidding—
Muses, do me a favor, get me some booze,
so in your infinite intimacy
you can help me unfold all I know
in bits & wisps & morsels
help me tell in neverending
gentle measures
more excerpts of my pleasures—
a dictionary of obscenity
and a thesaurus too
PLEASURE II
I love the soft iambics of
I am a whore a whorish whore
an old and whorish whore : my hour
soon must cum
PLEASURE IV
the infinite lips
of an envelope
PLEASURE VII
revolution’s huge dilation
of the body politic
unbounded in giving
birth : breathe, bitch, push!
PLEASURE IX
friendship's endless o-
ral nasal o-
ptical spiritual au-
ral ritornellos
PLEASURE XI
every set of anti-
empirical anti-
imperial contra-
factual genitals
PLEASURE XII
a massive frame
for a tiny bird, a pict-
orial oriole
PLEASURE XIX
art invoking taboo logics
tattooed on my flesh
PLEASURE XXX
when your spirit succumbs to error’s sweets
& the heart is easy
& thought is docile to passion’s cry
& so the soul’s exposed to her own
nasty traits & big daddy reason
with his oldie faith
can’t seduce you, go ahead & take yourself
away from his floppy cosmic cock
& in the loving tongue of a godlet discover
the linguist’s supreme jouissance
PLEASURE XXXIII
modernism's discount rupture
its obsolete cheapskate ink
PLEASURE XXXIX
sweetly to be
your antonym
PLEASURE LXXI
angelic harpists
fucking hardest
PLEASURE LXXIX
an operatic asshole farting
the magic flute of mozart
PLEASURE C
refining
all this filth
PLEASURE CXXV
a bundle of
that gutterlight
PLEASURE CXL
living in the midst of a million
holes in the form of men
PLEASURE CLXVII
god’s power is like a dildo
fake but oh
inside me it feels good
PLEASURE CCXXX
this phony theophany:
Friendship is a godlet with two heads& I’m a tiny butterfly
tasting the divine
with labial palpitations, licking Intimacy
like a papillon puppy while the cherubs
kiss the godlet sloppily
in chorus; like the bible breakable
hosts of angels sing
with scarlet sigil sibilants
from mouths where we have eyes
PLEASURE CCLXVII
centuries of piss
from a public
urinal : ludic
piss sophisticates
to know your mother
by her laugh : cackle
tittle chortle giggle
PLEASURE CCLVI
catalogues of common things
PLEASURE CCXCIII
marmalade
cloudbanks
PLEASURE CCCVII
a latticework
of paddlemarks
a bluish blush
of patterned bruises
scatological catalogues
wafting in my nostrils
PLEASURE CCCXCI
my prelapsarian
prolapse : chthonic
yonic design
PLEASURE CD
genital cartographers
touching lovely monsters
PLEASURE CDLXXII
waves of time
sloshing in
all my bodies'
holes
some friends in no particular
order—sasha adele riley louise kathy ben sean patrick ky
sid sam jack michelle john brian bubbles bobby emilie & lee
sheida zephyr zero zola zia michael rachelle sophia & more &
more & more
PLEASURE DLXXX
frothsongs
PLEASURE DCXXVII
chastity's
shipwrack
PLEASURE DCLXII
lilith’s dick
& eve’s huge penis
dp’ing adam’s cunt
PLEASURE DCCCIII
apostrophe's
catastrophe
PLEASURE CMXIII
faggotry’s
rapturettes
PLEASURE CMXCVII
my flaccid penis
laughing at limits
infinite girldick
PLEASURE MCDLII
living in my pleasure's wreckage
as the wet body sobs the soul
PLEASURE MDCCXCII
salvaging
the praxis
of sex
PLEASURE MMCXII
tongues performing
acts of terror
on top of sodom's altar :
o flirty corpulent ornaments
PLEASURE MMCCLX
when all that exists dissolves into incense
& so in the stinking
our noses do the thinking
PLEASURE MMDCXXXI
history’s bitter bullshit
steadily abolisht
PLEASURE MMMDCL
succulent
scum lust
uncut—
cocks
clits
ideas
atoms
films
trees
games
laces
hopes
minds
lists
lives
PLEASURE MMMMDCCLXI
a cunty canto
of cante jondo
sounding out
folk's funk
PLEASURE MMMMM
eyes tattooed on asscheeks
a perfect sort of hindsight
PLEASURE MMMMMCCXI
my heart a wren
its vowels invent
PLEASURE MMMMMDCCLXI
amitié's
proximities
PLEASURE MMMMMMMMMDCXXIII
god has a neon pink & plasticine
horsecock hanging down from her waist
& past her knees, his tits
have a million emerald nipples,
& her peacock tail’s
embroidered with orgies
& fans from his fat ass, which signifies
fertility, but this godlet
in her beauty
refuses to reproduce
unless they sprout a hydralike head :
they bud out from his buddies’
cumdump butts
to waste
each bucket of cum
PLEASURE MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMDCLXI
when these three don't worry me :
eternity & memory
& least of all identity
PLEASURE ∞
being here
with you
—Jenny S. De Lange
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