Oliverio Girondo #06 - Flog Me!

In this poem from Persuasion of the Days, Girondo takes up the theme of perversity by demanding that he be flogged, precisely because he deserves it. It is curious that his "defense" is a series of acts which he never took part in, and for this, he deserves the punishment.

The attitude of the poem is completely in line with the book in general & can be compared to themes from late Romanticism and the European Decadents, such as Baudelaire in verse & Housman (see Against the Grain) in prose.