Surrealist

EPIGRAPHS:
"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what coinsiders to shackles limiting your vision."
- Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989), "The Persistence of Memory", 1931.
"To be a surreals means barring to your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and beeng always on the lookout for what has never been."
- Rene Magritte (1898 – 1967), "An Interview ti CBS Eye", 1951.
"Surrealism; does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts."    
- Andre Breton (1896 – 1966).


I will not call my mates today,
I’ll call for cherubs - let them hear
My feeble voice, and betake
Themselves to where they, kneeling, fear
The Tocsin tolling, His moan foretokening...
So, let us listen to Him and pray...

The mob is droning, puss-like warm,
A horrid quagmire of malice...
It’s buzzing, their complacent swarm:
“It’s really time to dash your chalice,
And exile you, and dart to dust!
An artist? Get away, outcast!”

And he will leave them, and retire
Into himself, to his ILLUSIONS...
His won’t be shattered peace and quiet, -
‘Cos he’s absolved from their intrusion...
He’ll perish, with his works alone,
Slight footprints buried far from home...


Around 1992, Bloodykavkaz, RuSSia.