Taupin

who in fact saw himself on a sort of literary crusade
against decadence
when the collective
hominid-as-bio-literary-oeuvre
was born already into neurological decadence
born into a kind of high (or low) {gargantuan or wohlgesinnte}
Sperl or Dommayer or Volksgarten or Apollosaal  auch Freiluftlokalitäten
and when he chose Rimbaud what or who could he choose
but the fundamental or close grotesque
of the cave within a cave within a cave
a sea within a sea within a sea
for Rimbaud could tell you without theorizing much
about the hyper-sea which is (already)
the collective hominid-as-bio-literary decadence
CLARA VENUS

The buttocks bear two engraved words: CLARA VENUS;
—And that whole body moves and extends its broad rump
Hideously beautiful with an ulcer on the anus.

Venus Anadyomene as the Medusa of decadent recapitulation (echo) {poem}
the boundary between the hideous and beautiful
A JOKE (yoke), a lie, an oracular thwizsitt
as here I rely on Pound to make another joke
POUNDING THE NAIL INTO THE GROUND
an odd detail you’d have to see with a magnifying glass
poetic organelles
Neanderthal hybrids
and Mungo lady
the soul a wunderkammern
the world soul a grotesque machine
which in fact saw itself on a sort of literary crusade
to exhaust this hideously beautiful promise
this gyre of hyper-sea
whose blunt opening
toy of this sad eye of water
the golden current on its way
conjugal faith (fate)
a con-jugum
a together yoking
hideously beautiful
richly poor
baroquely simple
queerly narrow
succinctly ambiguous:

As from a green zinc coffin, a world’s
literature with weird heirs heavily poemaded
Emerge slowly and stupidly from an old bathtub,
or bravely, and strange
like the Mimis (memes)
from Arnhem land

our name
E man roux
red butter
lama-lama
tiger-quoll
Georges Méliès
a shoe-maker
visits the Egyptian Hall
in London
where he sees
John Nevil Maskelyne
stage magician
and inventor of the pay toilet

tao pen
unmask
line
mimi
fine
meme
fin
even the end
takes wing
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