abra

I, Abra Suicide, hereby solemnly vow that I will finish all unfinished work for my degree by 1 August, 2005.

In honor of this vow, I would like to present the first of Mina Loy's Songs to Joannes, the subject of one of my seminar papers.

I hope you all are doing well. Send any extra motivation you happen to have my way; I need it.

Songs to Joannes
by Mina Loy

I

Spawn of Fantasies
Silting the appraisable
Pig Cupid his rosy snout
Rooting erotic garbage
"Once upon a time"
Pulls a weed white star-topped
Among wild oats sown in mucous-membrane

I would an eye in a Bengal light
Eternity in a sky-rocket
Constellations in an ocean
Whose rivers run no fresher
Than a trickle of saliva

These are suspect places

I must live in my lantern
Trimming subliminal flicker
Virginal to the bellows
Of Experience
Coloured glass