Friday, March 25, 2011

A Cavalier History of Surrealism (Lemnos, Etc)



Les Pun(ais)es sont de rigour:

ZIA ZIMA RAZMAF ZIAR OKH FEIS 
A FIS E FIS THE HIZER ONAI THE SIFAI 
AKER TAFAR ZI THUFAMA PA ZI AP ZER 
O NAI MORI NA IP HOPAIE ZI MATH HOTH
SI FAIA FISZI ARKH FIS MARAKHN AFISA 
O NAI RON HARAN O SI FAI EPI E ZI O AR 
AI TIKH HOKE LOT AI FSI HOKI AS I 
APE ZERO ZAI HEFIS THUH TOH FER O NA


Lest concision name it Sais, or Essai.


~Tiger Clemenceau


and let Silius know the old and awful truth:



Quin etiam exhilarare viris convivia caede
 Mos olim, et miscere epulis spectacula dira
 Certantum ferro, saepe et super ipsa cadentum
 Pocula, respersis non parco sanguine mensis.

Tiger might say neo-filangist? Or Tiger might swell.
But the il-ness is covered, by bookies and the like if you will,
and the neo's a chuckle, til
all that's left

is the fang
whose song is blood
when it draws.