PROSE POEMS

"A COLLECTION OF POETIC PROSE"

"Musical, without rhythm and without rhyme,

supple enough and rugged enough to adapt itself to the lyrical

impulses of the soul, the undulations of reverie, the jibes of

conscious." Charles Boudelaire

PHILOSOPHY OF EXISTENCE

"Beyond the realm of becoming"

"You can't, absolutely can't understand

the world rationally and one can't understand people

rationally"

"Ah...Must one eternally suffer?" CB

"Artist is always being overcome" BS

"Pay no attention to the elegant wags

and continue to trot zealously along." CB

"Perfumes of desire and regret."

"This filthy hole-this abode

of eternal boredom is truly mine"

"Look at the stupid, dusty, dilapidated

furniture, the sad windows where

rain has traced furrows through the dust,

manuscripts covered with erasures or un-finished-

the calendar where a pencil has marked all the direst dates!" Charles Boudelaire

'The rancid smell of desolation."

"The entire retinue of memories, regrets, spasms, fears, agonies, nightmares,

nerves, rages have returned."

"I am life-

Implacable,

Inexplicable terror."

'Street slave-be damned

and live."

"They must be going somewhere-

since they were impelled by an

irrisistible urge to go on."

'Condemned to hope forever."

"I need Irrisistible Indifference"

"Delicate perfumes infuriate the public

but carefully selected garbage-pleases them."

"The tyrnny of the human face has disappeared

and now there will be no one but myself to make me suffer."

"Dissatisfied with everything and dissatisfied

with myself."

"Grant me that-

I am not inferior to those whom

I despise." Charles Boudelaire