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"No one sees me changing.
But who sees me?
I am my own hiding place."
-
Joë Bousquet
134
"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
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