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Issue 14 • Summer 2005 • Featured Lodestar Writer • Poetry
Jean Sénac,
translated from the French by Justin VicariThe Raft of the Medusa
The raft of the Medusa, Venus and Mars who bawl their heads off
Just to end up mausoleumed in the Louvre!
Love in papooses, love in Papua New Guinea,
In paregoric-city, Greenwichland, dogville of scrawny palavers, turdtowns,
Slavetrade, surrender -- the man is handed over, sex and balls, Suckjob plasters over
him, pisses in his mouth, puts its feet up
In his teeth. While very faraway, between dawn and the horizon, the
Woman weeps.
(Very gently, de-venomized, complement-my-equal,
Vaginivorous man, vaginized man, has thrown you to the
Cunts.
Woman raped and scorned! All around us Suckjob bangs and steams.)
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The Beautiful Brothels (page 8 of 18 pages)
All Pages: See all the poems on one page
Table of Contents: The Myth of the Mediterranean Sperm
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Jean Sénac was a teacher, soldier, and writer. He was the author of numerous collections of poems, including Citoyens de beauté and Jubilation, and one novel, Ébauche du père: pour en finir avec l'enfance. Following the Algerian revolution, he worked in the Ministry of Education in Algeria and for Radio-Algiers with a daily program, Poésie sur tous les fronts. He was the founder of the magazines Soleil, Terrasses, and cofounder of Galery 54. He was murdered, possibly because of his political beliefs, in August 1973 in Algiers. More information (in French): French Wikipedia: Jean Sénac.
Justin Vicari's work appears or is forthcoming in Interim, Rhino, Eclipse, Slant, Spillway, Gin Bender Poetry Review, Poetry Motel, Third Coast, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, Softblow, and other reviews. He is the author of chapbooks "In a Garden of Eden" (Plan B Press) and "Woman Bathing Light to Dark" (forthcoming from Toad Press, 2006). In 2005, one of his poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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