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From: Songs of The Bride, The Hague satyres.
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All is in flux!
[Bruid]

All is in flux.

Nothing completed.

All that is deemed ugly

is presently pretty.

What Time did assemble

is dissolved once again.

Procedures once smoothly

are executed badly.

Expansion and adjustment

are needed

to give birth to creation and

to appeal to the imagination!
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The Large Glass for example

as designed by Marcel Duchamp

is a Monument to Incompletenes:

In the Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even

one Bachelor is missing,

as is The Boxing Match.

And the Terrain with the Drips and the Splashes

planned somewhere in the lower right

cannot be located.
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Nevertheless the Bridal System coexisted

with the Bachelors Apparatus

-each in separate panel-

in felicitous harmony:

Their parts attuned to one another

their sparkling rays converged

from both sides in sympathy.
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It was the Bride in the Upper Section of the Glass

who with her Inscriptions gave the Sign

where upon the Bachelors filled their forms

with Illuminating Gas,

so that they could transform into vertical

the horizontal movement of the lamenting Chariot.

Their trials and tests

were overcome with grace.

Their courtesy exemplary.

-After all their uniforms were filled

with the finest matter!-
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They testified -by chanting loudly-

that it was the Bride who led the way,

that it was she who gave them inspiration.

The chanting from the Chariot was

monotonous, but genuine,

grinding their own chocolate

politely awaiting their own color!
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But at the turn of this century

it must be said and it must be sung

Where have all the Good Times gone

and the Good Times they are changing.
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The song of the Bride and

the song of the Bachelors Machine

-by being in contrast-

were in harmony with each other.

But it is as if their songs

no longer fit together,

as if they sound off-key!
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The Bride has adjusted to modern times:

her undulating movements

has been transformed into zeros and ones

which she then translates with machines

attached to her body.

Her horizon has moved forward,

she possesses a Speaker now.

And when she moves too far

from her satellite

she picks up her backpack-missile to

relaunch herself to her station.
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But the Bachelors have not kept up with her:

their memory is less vast

their calculations not as fast

their lenses too concave too convex

their hearing not acute

their accounting too slow

their satellite dishes too narrow

they seem unable to receive her voice.
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The Bride and the Bachelors are splitting up!

The Bride this evening will announce

the how and why.

So stay tuned.

And listen......
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