Mina Loy
Love Songs
- I.
- Spawn of Fantasies
- Silting the appraisable
- Pig Cupid his rosy snout
- Rooting erotic garbage
- "Once upon a time"
- Pulls a weed white star-topped
- Among wild oats sown in mucous-membrane
- I would an eye in a Bengal light
- Eternity in a sky-rocket
- Constellations in an ocean
- Whose rivers run no fresher
- Than a trickle of saliva
- These are suspect places
- I must live in my lantern
- Trimming subliminal flicker
- Virginal to the bellows
- Of Experience
- Coloured glass
Love Songs # 1-4, 1915, from the inaugural issue of
Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, July, 1915, and the
complete 'Love Songs #1-34', also titled 'Songs to
Joannes' and published in Others, April, 1917.
Editor's Note:
The above is an excerpt from the controversial opening sequence of one of Loy's most infamous poems, 'Love Songs,' wherein she refigures the god of love as a swine of carnal appetite. An image of Love Songs #1 as handwritten by Loy in 1915 is shown below:
The first pig to fly in an aeroplane was taken up for a joyride in a biplane by 