01
A Poem
I, D-503, the builder of the Integral, I am only one of the many
mathematicians of the United State.
The great historic hour is near, when the first Integral will rise into
the limitless space of the universe. A thousand years ago your heroic ancestors subjected the whole
earth to the power of the United State. A still more glorious task is before you,—the integration of
the indefinite equation of the Cosmos by the use of the glass, electric, fire-breathing Integral.
02
Harmony
From behind the Green Wall from some unknown plains the wind brings to us the
yellow honeyed pollen of flowers.
One’s lips are dry from this sweet dust. Every moment one passes one’s
tongue over them. Probably, all women whom I meet in the street (and men certainly also), have today
sweet lips.
03
A Coat
I looked over all that I wrote down yesterday and I find that my descriptions
are not sufficiently clear.
That is, everything would undoubtedly be clear to one of us but who
knows to whom my Integral will some day bring these records? Perhaps you, like our ancestors, have
read the great book of civilization only up to the page of nine hundred years ago.
04
Epilepsy
The auditorium: an enormous half-globe of glass with the sun piercing through.
The circular rows of noble, globe-like, closely-shaven heads. With joy
in my heart I looked around. I believe I was looking in the hope of seeing the rose-colored scythe,
the dear lips of O-, somewhere among the blue waves of the unifs. Then I saw extraordinarily white,
sharp teeth like the.... But no!