Elegy with Surrealist Proverbs as Refrain

“Poetry must lead somewhere,” declared Breton. He carried a rose inside his coat each day to give a beautiful stranger—“Better to die of love than love without regret.” And those who loved him soon learned regret. “The simplest surreal act is running through the street with a revolver firing at random.” Old and famous, he seemed démodé. There is always a skeleton on the buffet.