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From “Contemporania”
GO, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied, | |
| Go also to the nerve-wracked, go to the enslaved-by-convention, | |
| Bear to them my contempt for their oppressors. | |
| Go as a great wave of cool water, | |
| Bear my contempt of oppressors. | 5 |
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| Speak against unconscious oppression, | |
| Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, | |
| Speak against bonds. | |
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| Go to the bourgeoise who is dying of her ennuis, | |
| Go to the women in suburbs. | 10 |
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| Go to the hideously wedded, | |
| Go to them whose failure is concealed, | |
| Go to the unluckily mated, | |
| Go to the bought wife, | |
| Go to the woman entailed. | 15 |
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| Go to those who have delicate lust, | |
| Go to those whose delicate desires are thwarted, | |
| Go like a blight upon the dulness of the world; | |
| Go with your edge against this, | |
| Strengthen the subtle cords, | 20 |
| Bring confidence upon the algae and the tentacles of the soul. | |
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| Go in a friendly manner, | |
| Go with an open speech. | |
| Be eager to find new evils and new good, | |
| Be against all forms of oppression. | 25 |
| Go to those who are thickened with middle age, | |
| To those who have lost their interest. | |
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| Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family— | |
| Oh how hideous it is | |
| To see three generations of one house gathered together! | 30 |
| It is like an old tree with shoots, | |
| And with some branches rotted and falling. | |
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| Go out and defy opinion, | |
| Go against this vegetable bondage of the blood. | |
| Speak for the free kinship of the mind and spirit. | 35 |
| Go, against all forms of oppression. | |
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