WHOROSCOPE │Samuel Beckett

What’s that?
An egg?
By the brothers Boot it stinks fresh.
Give it to Gillot.

Galileo how are you
and his consecutive thirds!
The vile old Copernican lead-swinging son of a sutler!
We’re moving he said we’re off – Porca Madonna!
the way a boatswain would be, or a sack-of-potatoey
                                                   charging Pretender.
That’s not moving, that’s moving.
 
What's  that?
A little green fry or a mushroomy one?
Two lashed ovaries with prostisciutto?
How long did she womb it, the feathery one?
Three days and four nights?
Give it to Gillot.
(...)



Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, The Hours Press, Paris, 1930,
Edition of 300 (100 copies signed by the author)