Pierre Joris

Introït to my Purgatory

the biggest lie is
that we were kicked out
of Paradise

no one kicked us out of
Paradise. No one. Not
even ourselves.

We did. We did besmirch
the place. Shat on the floor
of paradise.

We did. This is the truth. We did
not get kicked out
of Paradise. We turned

against paradise, the place we
have always lived in.
The only place we have

and which therefore has to be
Paradise. We have
no other, garden or

city, steppe or town. This here
is Paradise. This
now. We have shat on.

No one kicked us out. No one.
Call him Noone. Noone
is to blame.

We shat all over the place.
Noone cleaned it up.
Noone is to blame.