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Issue 14 • Summer 2005 • Featured Lodestar Writer • Poetry
Jean Sénac,
translated from the French by Justin VicariThe Beautiful Brothels
Children aren't made by throwing rocks at hippies
Or calling poets dirty names.
But you have cluttered their skulls with your trash,
You have turned them into this junior riffraff wailing on my shadow.
(No cats or dogs for your Cayenne-apartments,
You've turned them into stinky knickknacks.)
God, if you exist, let us know which way your dick swings, OK?
All mankind is topsy-turvy,
Chameleon on our tree of castrationflowers.
See how man makes himself at home in his own decay and plague
(with his lil cars, his lil gadgets, his lil zinzins, his lil zazas).
See how he gnaws his neighbor's skull,
With what efficiency he plasters our bedrooms with his
Auschwitz, his Dresden, his Hiroshima, his Susini-villa.
Look, gang of cunts!
But there are no more Eyes, you don't have them,
Only sated anuses belching your glorious morality!
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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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