The Ant Poem, by Robert Desnos

[cafolini]

Note: This is one of the significant poems that Desnos wrote mocking the Nazi's pseudoscientific utterances of objectivism. They eventually cost him his life in a concentration camp.

An 18-meter long ant With a hat on its head That doesn’t exist,
that doesn’t exist.
An ant pulling a cart Full of penguins and ducks That doesn’t exist,
that doesn’t exist.
An ant speaking French, Speaking Latin and Javanese, That doesn’t exist,
that doesn’t exist.
Hey! Why not?

[Lamarq]

The amount of respect this poem deserves is not even describable in words, it seems incredible simple, yet it is on a level difficult to understand for the common man.
I regard myself as a person that doesn't get easily involved emotionally with art, yet i cried a little when I read this. It's as if i felt the authors message, yet didn't understand it with my mind, but my heart.
It's beautiful, yet sad.
Like live.