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ARITHMETICAL PROGRESSION OF THE VERB “TO BE 
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On a sheet of paper 
dropped with the intention of demolishing 
space 
by the simple subtraction of a necessary plane 
draw a line that leaves the présent 
in addition 
carrying forward to the uncounted columns 
of the spatial ruin 
now considered as complété 
the remainder of the past. 
The act of disappearing 
Oblation 
which in the three-dimensional 
À Francis Picabia 
is the fate of the convergent 
Le Ciel attend 
vista 
is thus 
Un rire de femme m’a fait tant de mal 
under the form of the immédiate 
Mon coeur est lourd 
arrested in a perfect parallel 
Les étoiles s’allument et le fleuve roule le chagrin du monde. 
of being 
in part. 
Les idées spéculatives 
Walter Conrad Arensberg 
Le soleil a refusé l’anneau nuptial à la lune 
Je ne serai jamais ni député ni ambassadeur. 
Palmes digitales 
L’orange de Malte 
J’ordonnerai la saturnale sur Brooklyn-Bridge face aux 
sky- 
scrapers étonnés 
Mon amour est mort. 
Edgar Varese.