i am not a good man
i am not a good man. i am hypocritical like the sea. shamefully plagued by my own self-indulgence. drown me in pools of my own tears, or punish me with a sea of delicious cliches from lautréamont!
then the seas lift up their waters, swallow up the planks in their abysses; hurricanes and earthquakes overturn the houses; the plague, various diseases decimate the praying families. but men do not realize it. i have also seen them blushing, pale with shame for their conduct on this earth; rarely. storms, hurricane sisters; firmament bluish, whose beauty i do not admit; hypocritical sea, image of my heart; earth, in the mysterious bosom; inhabitants of the spheres; universe; god, who created it with magnificence, it is you whom i invoke: show me a man who is good!
— le comte de lautréamont, les chants de maldoror