[Vwoolf] From "Feux d'artifice" (Duckworth, 1927)*

[Stuart N. Clarke]

*By Guillaume de Vere Tipple (before he became socially conscious to a remarkable degree in the 1930s, even though he had long entertained doubts as to the security of capitalist society, which received striking confirmation when International Nickel, in which he had inherited a large holding, slumped to 11½)    



                    Aeneas on the Saxophone.



                    . . . Delenda est Carthago! 

(ses bains de mer, ses plages fleuries,

And Dido on her lilo à sa proie attachée) 



                And shall we stroll along the front

Chatting of this and that and listening to the band? 



    The plumed and tufted sea responds

    Obliquely to the trombone's call

    The lecherous seaweed's phallic fronds

    Gently postulate the Fall.



But between the pebble and the beach rises the doubt,

                                                                                . . . Delenda

Between the seaside and the sea the summons,

                                                                        . . . est

Between the “wagon” and the “lit” the implication,

                                                                        . . . Carthago.



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