CONTRAPUNCTUM


ARTH THE GUGGENHEIMER'S SPLENDIDLY TRIVIAL STATIC ADVENTURES

CONTRA PUNCTUM - LIVRE II

25. LITTLE ARTH'S IRRESISTIBLE (A)SCENT
26. UNLAWFUL DEPARTURE
27. PLASTICwoodBAGcoffin
28. CHILDHOOD SCHEME

25

LITTLE ARTH'S IRRESISTIBLE (A)SCENT


AT 4 little Arth knew something great
was bound to happen

At 5 little Arth stripped down and
dug a hole in the garden
the earlier I start, he thought, the earlier I'll find the bottom
he had to stop for lunch though

At 10 little Arth had his daddy taken away
he could have said goodbye, he thought,
or at least closed the door behind him
and then he dove into the carpet

He declared : that is it
let's wait till something happens

At 20 little Arth went away to see the world
but at the other side of the globe
they still had soil under lawn
leaves around trees
and their toes at their feet

At 25 little Arth found out something was missing
and set upon to find his way

That is how at 36 he finally.




26

UNLAWFUL DEPARTURE

ARTH'S friend had a fit, he
attempted to dress up in his orange legal files.
They did not fit, or is it that he was too short
sighted ?

He refused a glass of water, and kept on
taking fish out of his shorts
[Poor slippery fish jumping in glossy water].

Do you want to play with me ? he begged ;
but Arth had to go :
Adventure would await.


27

PLASTICwoodBAGcoffin

ONE day his daddy told little Arth,
I have a disease, there's something growin' and
growin'
on my neck,
I'm on my way to the hospital, to have my head cut off.
-Very well, said Arth, but what shall they do with it ?
-Very simple, said the Answer : They'll take it away from my body, put it inside a plastic bag.
Arth was bewildered, but if daddy said so, it had to be the truth.

But it was not quite true, Daddy was a joker,
a fine jester
- did he measure his gesture ?

Eventually it's not his head which ended in a plastic bag,
but his whole body, which had [ Warum denn ? ] to be put in a wooden coffin.
In spite of his joke, didn't he deserve a bit of plain earth instead?

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28

CHILDHOOD SCHEME

ARTH likes to fight with termites,
He organizes famous colonizations
collective drowning actions
and autos-da-fe at night

Arth is so cute when his
green-blond locks hide his eyes
So delicious when he mass murders
in the garden


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