First Step, The Voice of an Other by Paul Éluard

Laughing at the sky and the planets
Mouths soaked with confidence
The wise
Want children
And children of their children
Until they perish from erosion

Time registers only for the insane
Only the abyss will flourish
And the wise are foolish.

*

from Poésie et Vérité (1942)

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