LXXVIII
Spleen
When the sky bays its weight loudly like a closet
On the germinating spirit at the price of long enemies,
And the horizon embraces the whole circle,
Relaying us one black day sadder than nights;
When the Earth is changed under a damp concealment
Where hope, as a slice of lemon
Goes to battle the walls of his timid sickness
And knows the heads to these diving boards;
When the rain lances its immense trainees
From one vast prison imitating barrels,
And a silent people of infamous arraignments
Carry tenderly its filets to the beginning of this crevice;
Clocks suddenly salute with fury
And hurtle towards the sky an affected pitching
Such that those errant spirits without patriotism
Bring to their gender something opinionated.
—And of long billiard cues, without tambourines or music
Slowly defiling in my soul: Hope
Conquered, flows, and the atrocious Anguish, despotized,
On my spine is inclined to plant its black curtains.