Hie! | A poem by Arthur Cravan,1913

Gino Severini, Portrait of Arthur Cravan, peinture collage, Paris, 1912

I would like to be in Vienna and Calcutta,

Catch every train and every boat
Lay every woman and gorge myself on every dish.
Man of fashion, chemist, whore, drunk, musician, labourer, painter, acrobat,
actor;
Old man, child, crook, hooligan, angel and rake; millionaire, bourgeois, cactus,
giraffe, or crow; Coward, hero, negro, monkey,
Don Juan, pimp, lord, peasant, hunter, industrialist,
Flora and fauna: I am all things, all men and all animals!
What next?
Assume a distinguished air,
Manage to leave behind perhaps
My fatal plurality!

Arthur Cravan, Hie!, Maintenant, issue 2, 1913
tr Paul Lenti