(Fifty songs to my other self.)
These poems, written between 1968 - 1973 are 'songs to my other self,' a self
that exists untouched and beyond the social conditioning that gave me a name,
a number, an identity and a finite space in time. They describe the profound
sense of unity, peace and love that exists within that other self, but in
declaring that love I am also declaring battle against those who would pervert
and destroy it.
These poems are an expression of my 'revolutionary' purpose, a description of
what I know is possible and, because of that knowledge, the reason behind the
anger I now feel.
Penny Rimbaud, 1984
Poem 27
(Text-only version) Poem 27
"Acts of Love" accompanied the double album released by CRASS (by the same title). Its twenty-five pages contained fifty poems and fifty-one illustrations.