Lo, I love that! "Please take back the sparrows. They are bothersome and cute." I could apply that to lots of people I know.
Here's a link, if anyone's interested, to a great Baudelaire site with the complete Petits Poems En Prose (also known as Le Spleen de Paris) - but in French only.
http://hypo.ge-dip.etat-ge.ch/athena...pp_frame0.html
Baudelaire, of course, being the great-granddaddy of prose poetry, is more typical maybe than Geoffrey Hill, but that's why I posted Hill, in a way. Baudelaire's stated intention was to shock the hypocritical bourgeoisie (& I'm afraid that's largely us, to some extent).
And here you go: because I find the infant Hill's treatement ("flaying") of his friend "Coelred" rather shocking too... some of Baudelaire's scenarios are a bit coarse, that is they're intended to be shocking but what else?
KEB