Anguish (in part) by Arthur Rimbaud (Tr. John Ashbery)

The accidents of scientific magic and movements of social brotherhood are to be cherished as the progressive restitution of our first freedom ?....

But the Vampire who makes us behave ordains that we amuse ourselves with what she doles out to us, or that we be otherwise more entertaining.

To roll with ones wounds, through the wearying air and the sea; with physical torment, through the silence of murderous water and air; with tortures that laugh in their heinously stormy silence.