Rare surrealist poem by Benjamin Péret – “Common Sense”.

Benjamin PERET (1889.1959)

Signed autograph poem.

One page in-8° on lined paper.

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A rare surrealist poem by Benjamin Péret.

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Common sense

Gather the broken glass that cries for help

and the dry egg playing backgammon

And keep in mind that

on the other side of the horizon, which flaps like a piano

foreign copper stalactites encrusted with chicken

asking for directions with horrible teeth-grinding

which are reminiscent of the sobs of the artichoke about to be roasted

and who is tearing his hair out with a nutcracker.

Thus the pebble, aware of its antiquity

because Caesar held it in his stomach

like a sparrow fallen from its nest

ask all the echoes of red ink

the look of the year that sweats its oil

like a mayonnaise king

like a chair of flour.

Benjamin Péret