Artur Rimbaud, 1871 Paris'ten 2008 Atina'ya

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from, The Parisian Orgy or Paris Repopulated, Arthur Rimbaud. (şairin Paris Komününe katıldığı tahmin ediliyor. Zaten şiirde bunu anlamak mümkün. Son dörtlükten ve tarihten de anlaşılacağı gibi Mayıs 1871'de 'düzenin' tekrar yerine oturması ve Komünün sona ermesi üzerine yazılmış.)

"...

Open your nostrils to these superb nauseas!
Steep the tendons of your necks in strong poisons!
Laying his crossed hands on the napes of your childish necks
The Poet says to you: “O cowards! be mad!

...

The Poet will take the sobs of the Infamous,
The hate of the Galley slaves, the clamour of the Damned;
And the beams of his love will scourge Womankind.
His verses will leap out: There’s for you! There! Villains!

- Society, and everything, is restored: - the orgies
Are weeping with dry sobs in the old brothels:
And on the reddened walls, the gaslights in frenzy,
Flare balefully upwards to the wan blue skies!

May 1871."