VISION

Music -- incense -- perfumes..., poisons..., literature!...

Flowers vibrate in in the effervescent gardins;

And the Androgyne with large phosphorescent green eyes

Blooms in the golden charnel house of a world in corruption.

The apostles of Sex, she brings in green pasture,

Under her green gold robe with joyous rustlings,

Her acid virgin flesh and her grinding spasms And her thin pleasure sharpened in torture.

The bow bites almost to the blood of the soul of the violin

This rattling art agitated with hysterical shivers

Sensing in this the spine coming erect again...

The ardent stigmata burns on the hallucinating foreheads.

Glory to the senses! Hosanna to the frantic nerves.

The Antichrist of the flesh visits the damned...

Behold, behold the coming of the time of the Androgyne.

Albert Samain, "Vision," from

La Chariot d'or.