Lend me your arm
To replace my leg
The rats ate it for me
At Verdun
At Verdun
I ate a lot of rats
But they didn’t give me back my leg
And that’s why I was given the Croix de Guerre
And a wooden leg
And a wooden leg
— Benjamin Péret, Little song of the maimed
Translated from the French by David Gascoyne
(Source: frenchtwist)
