Readings in French

                                                                 1.

                          Looking into the eyes of Guillame Apollinaire
                          You see a wax orphans' cheek turn purple 
                          and cough windshot notes.

                                                                  2.
              
                         Looking into the eyes of Isidore Ducasse
                         (or the Comte De Lautreamont, 
                          if you prefer a syphillitic eel)
                          You see orchards of light race black
                          in alipine fissions with laughter.


                                                                  3.
 
                        Looking into the eyes of Robert Desnos
                        You lick a snail from sleeping ice.
                        Swamp water bubbles inside 
                        A man drilling in deja vu.


                                                                  4.

                       In any case, the mirror's 
                       gloss is split by
                       a coin flipped 
                       on frozen thumbs 
                       hitching a ride back there.
                       
                     The sidewalk moves backward
                     ice on a boot's heel--a
                     lyric plays up your nose, 

                      "I forgot something." 
                        
                      Which is all fine. 
 
                      You've been here before