The Immortal Accursed
Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the ground; and from thy face I shall
be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and wanderer on the earth, and whoever
finds me will slay me.
Genesis 4: 13-14.
I have received life as a wound, and I have forbidden suicide to heal
the scar. I want the Creator to contemplate the gaping crevasse for every hour
of his eternity. This is the punishment I inflict upon him.
Lautréamont, Maldoror, Book III, Chapt. 1.
Estranged from God in vengeance and in fear,
my penance shall not be adjourned:
Men cringe in horror when I
reappear.
Eternally
they wound and jeer
me as I wander, deathless, spurned,
estranged from Men in
vengeance and in fear.
Plunged
deep in doubt if I draw near,
yet frenzied in their self-concern,
Men cringe in horror when I
reappear.
If in
the course of my career
we meet, God quakes at my return,
estranged from Him in
vengeance and in fear.
I
voice his curse for Men to hear,
his cruelty which they dread to learn—
They cringe in horror when I
reappear.
This
curse lays God upon his bier
where I alone can bid him burn:
estranged
from Men in vengeance and in fear,
He'll
cringe in horror when I reappear.
Aside
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Her
gold hair flutters,
And
rats scream in the courtyard.
-Georg Trackl, The Young
Maiden
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a slight
enticement
warily the cuspid slather thrashes in the child's milk
the eddy
entangled
left behind him long ago
a blotter on the
road
sinking in its
inverse glow
its teeth enmeshed
in silk
it spirals or contamination creeping like a dying toad
in splendour and or
but and
composed of
the lice
went
Trebonius
tugged at the hem of my robe
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