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La Légende des sexes: Poëmes hystériques

Chapter 41: REINE DU MONDE
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A defiant preface frames erotic impulse as an essential, immutable human force and rejects prudish omissions of desire. The poems examine sexual longing, procreation, and bodily pleasure with vivid, often transgressive imagery that shifts between lyric intensity and satirical provocation. Classical, religious, and literary allusions punctuate the verses as the poet interrogates inheritance, birth, and social hypocrisy. Several pieces give voice to marginal or liminal figures—unrealized offspring and drowned shades—mixing elegy with erotic symbolism. The collection pairs formal richness with polemic urgency to confront cultural taboos about sex and fertility.

REINE DU MONDE

RONDEL

A Georges Lorin.

O Luxure, reine du monde,
Baume qui guéris nos rancœurs!
Tu mets l’infini dans nos cœurs,
Tu fais deux dieux d’un couple immonde.
C’est toi la déesse féconde,
Hébé des célestes liqueurs,
O Luxure, reine du monde,
Baume qui guéris nos rancœurs!
Aux maudits que l’angoisse inonde
Tu permets les oublis moqueurs,
Quand tes baisers chantent en chœurs
Dans les taudis où le vent gronde.
O Luxure, reine du monde!