Androgynous Dali (male)
The horse at the bottom of the sea!
And the boat on the mountain!
Matter is a caricature of death
Death is a caricature of life
Andrognous Dali (female)
On the first day
I would have destroyed the giraffes
On the second
I would have changed the flowers into soles
so that the jasmine would have the whiteness of a sole
even if it were only a naked, shaven sole
like Greta Garbo
Anne of Brittany
My ermine-clad corpse
plunges to the bottom of the sea
like a broken toy
on its wedding night
Call this mauve island earth
where Peter Pan moulds
the Never-Never more
Call this sharp silver water
that mutilates
and rings of virgins
in their vinegar
Choir
But if you were God
you would not be Dali
Haec oblatio Domine
obtineat simulque a cordibus nostris
concupiscentiam carnis et oculorum atque
ambitionem sobrio juste piequ viventes
praemia consequamar aeterna
(We beg of you Lord to grant us the grace
of true humility to pluck concupisence
of the flesh and eyes from our hearts
and worldly ambition, too
so that we may live soberly, justly and piously
and obtain our eternal reward)
Reciter
The Angel's Anger!
He rips out five million religious
paintings from their frames!
The pillars of Persepolis!
He diverts the course of the Ganges
and the Llobregat!
