primitivism

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Some Mayakovsky

Your thoughts,

dreaming on a softened brain,
like an over-fed lackey on a greasy settee,
with my heart's bloody tatters I'll mock again;
impudent and caustic, I'll jeer to superfluity.

Of Grandfatherly gentleness I'm devoid,
there's not a single grey hair in my soul!
Thundering the world with the might of my voice,
I go by -- handsome,
twenty-two-year-old.

-(From the prologue of A Cloud in Trousers, Vladimir Mayakovsky 1893-1930)