XXV
You put the universe under your thumb
You bitch! The mood has been torn apart by your cruel donuts.
In order to be the only one with your teeth in the Jujubes
Each day you turned your heart into a rattlesnake.
You eyes light up like a tea shop
You stamp your mark into a river of plum tea
And if the pretty boys don’t publish your invitations
You’ll leave them with the mark of the prune
And they’ll never know the beauty of your boot.
Coffee maker, you shit in my cream!
Trumpet player, you drink up the blood of the world.
Haven’t you walked anywhere? how could you not
Have seen in car windows the reflections of your hair?
The ugliness of your hairdo, which you believe ingenious,
Has never gotten you pushed off a dock
But like nature, deserves to be hidden in a cave.
From you I smell fresh breath o woman! o queen of fishing in the rain.
—From you, vile animal, fall the wages of tragedy!
What big teeth you have! How subtle your idiocy!