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Weep living tears! Weep gushers! Weep your guts out! Weep dreams! Weep before portals and at ports of entry! Weep in fellowship! Weep in yellow!
Open the locks and calas of tears! Let us soak our shirts, our souls! Inundate the sidwalks and the boulevards, and bear us along safely on the flood!
Assist in anthropology courses, weeping! Celebrate realtives' birthdays, weeping! Walk across Africa, weeping!
Weep like a caiman, like a crocodile...especially if it's true that caimans and crocodiles have no real tears in them.
Weep anything, but weep well! Weep with your nose, with your knees! Weep through your navel, through your mouth!
Weep of love, of hate, of happiness! Weep in your frock, from flatus, from frailty! WEep impromptu, weep from memory! Weep throughout the insomniac night and throughout the livelong day!
Oliverio Girondo
Translation by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
Scarecrow and Other Anomalies, trans. by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert (Riverside, California: Xenos Books, 2002).