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.
