Pulp Poem of the Week

Mme Ernestine Gapol,
49,
dwelling in Vanves,
on Avenue Gambetta,
committed suicide:
two bullets in the head.

          Félix Fénéon

          Novels in Three Lines

          1906

          (translated by Luc Sante)

Pulp Poem of the Week

Lit by her son,

5,

a signal flare burst

under the skirts of

Mme Roger, of Clichy;

damages were

considerable.

Félix Fénéon

Novels in Three Lines

1906

(translated by Luc Sante)

Pulp Poem of the Week

In Clichy,
an elegant young man
threw himself
under a coach
with rubber wheels,
then, unscathed,
under a truck,
which pulverized him.

Félix Fénéon

Novels in Three Lines

1906

(translated by Luc Sante)

Pulp Poem of the Week

Brandy, he thought.

Actually, it was

carbolic acid.

Thus Philibert Faroux,

of Noroy, Oise,

outlived his spree by

a mere two hours.

Félix Fénéon

Novels in Three Lines

1906

(translated by Luc Sante)