tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25990971790680101522024-03-13T09:14:43.055-07:00AmbiguityNoëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-73627011949869198422018-06-04T09:01:00.001-07:002018-06-04T09:01:29.787-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What there is</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every time you come to me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">deceive a caress around my shoulders</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my head suits itself to what it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">imagines to be loved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and waits there for what doesn't sleep,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">doesn't wake up ripening in you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">because you always go further </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to where you have no business looking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you let me search in places where I can't find you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">not where you are, not where I want to see you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wind, indifferent wind,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you're not there, I'm alone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and listen every night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to what I once thought of you. </span><br />
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Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-15356666627986426732018-04-25T09:24:00.001-07:002018-04-25T11:09:38.781-07:00<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3wpBTGmCpwo/WuCrhdukKfI/AAAAAAAAA0g/p6WgYSEXoEUYvSHYKpfBY97-fhIz8supACLcBGAs/s1600/serveimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="1600" height="148" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3wpBTGmCpwo/WuCrhdukKfI/AAAAAAAAA0g/p6WgYSEXoEUYvSHYKpfBY97-fhIz8supACLcBGAs/s200/serveimage.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chairs on the terrace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then let me be the woman who folds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">open the chairs and spreads them out,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one chair for each thing she doesn't</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">say, one for every non-touch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And then let's go there, you, me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">each separate, sit,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">just for a while, maybe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Counting the chairs under breath,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">making visible that what didn't happen,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">make it attendable, make it dreamable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let me.</span><br />
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<br />Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-67333130455514140552018-04-19T12:45:00.002-07:002018-04-19T12:56:31.096-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Highway to hell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I distrust people</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-not like a zebra</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who suspiciously looks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at vague contours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the high grass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">near the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">watering hole-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">no, simply like how</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a little boy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Hiroshima</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">looked at</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Little Boy</span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-81243943312511347972018-04-12T16:58:00.000-07:002018-04-12T17:04:10.359-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Don't trust poets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No poets who </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">empty pens to made up exes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">exploited with a loose wrist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Daddy-issues made into a puppet show.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Better to grind the machine into the ground yourself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pin their opinions to your forehead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A collection that adapts itself so it becomes personal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Don't be mistaken. The dialect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from Amazon warriors, turtles and goosebumps </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is in all seriousness and reason the strongest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each step we climb higher. More nostalgic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To the essence. Until you recognize yourself. Pick a fight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Don't trust poets who</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">turn in notes like stalkers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Better leave poetry to read today's newspaper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brain me out. Let yourself be needed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Go and experience some shit, loose drinking games,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rape nights. Channel your skin inside out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Walk away before you and everyone around you turn into words.</span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-60661706166083368422017-11-02T06:28:00.001-07:002017-11-02T06:28:14.140-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">putrid </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">this time let us not talk about</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">timeless things</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like wars that pass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and wings that carry oil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but let's talk about me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as soon as I was born, I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">started dying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my intestines molded like cheese</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but my skin straightened everything out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">because it's the outside that matters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm about the outside</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">so I put black around my eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">paint my lips red and lungs black</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">because organs are not about giving</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">life but about extending life </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In truth I am the most putrid person</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you will ever encounter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">best not to run into me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">beware </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">this is a warning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm not suitable for all ages</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and I'm not responsible for any possible consequences </span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-91391181165372920312017-10-17T05:36:00.002-07:002017-10-17T07:33:48.363-07:00<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.3333px;">Italian Noir</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sBxjSuGT4sQ/WeX5B5x9-5I/AAAAAAAAAy8/ZTLrdYS76vAEnZJ4j3Sj5zyQj5q5S92NQCLcBGAs/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1200" height="156" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sBxjSuGT4sQ/WeX5B5x9-5I/AAAAAAAAAy8/ZTLrdYS76vAEnZJ4j3Sj5zyQj5q5S92NQCLcBGAs/s200/download.jpg" width="200" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span></a></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">like crumbs she collects her tears </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">the room speaks carelessly for itself </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">even silhouettes are invisible through the antique curtains </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">so she decides to give the night-moths a voice </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">acherontia atropos she claims </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">wrapped in negative frequency </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">desperately drawn to their ill fate </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">the Goldberg variations - Zimmerman </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">(Glenn Gould did it better) </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">she cuts faded photographs into a sepia collage </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">her knife cuts open landscapes </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">where the sun inevitably </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">sets</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I leave the room and decide that a single sheet will suffice </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">her leg slowly rubs against mine </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">it feels inescapable - time only has a final destination </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><i>lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate</i> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I pour myself a drink </span></span></span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-87544048014300680142017-09-06T05:54:00.002-07:002017-09-06T06:03:08.561-07:00<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The voice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a hotel room in the Barrio </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you are once again in play</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">instead of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">over her shoulder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you are suddenly in my mouth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as if you want to show her the secrets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that lie at the back of my throat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">every small word I now want to utter </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is being cut off by your thrusts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you should have let it go, you say</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">what good did it bring </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">us?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this afternoon behind the curtains of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Buenos Aires</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm his lover and her illusionist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from my open mouth I fabricate </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a monotonous string of mourning-cards</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one guess who's name</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is on them?</span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-11197372866610759722017-08-13T13:33:00.000-07:002017-08-13T13:38:22.662-07:00<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Desire
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the tips of my outstretched
fingers
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you act like you play the part of
water,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yet you don't play.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Look, you say, this is thirst: I offer
you something
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to drink
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you pretend like you have never
drank,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reaching for little airwaves above a
hot road surface
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to pause for a while.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you would desire me that much, you
say,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I would play the part of love for you
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you would pretend as if you never
had loved.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just like it would be, if you would be
little particles
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of death, you say, if I'd play the sun
for you and you
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">had suffered night after night.</span></div>
Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-19303268683605972962017-08-09T15:10:00.002-07:002017-08-09T15:40:50.710-07:00<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IbV-L3ABFmY/WYuIR4prr1I/AAAAAAAAAyE/qbJWa7C8orcDB4pVHG7yWUXkTquJbA5_ACLcBGAs/s1600/serveimage%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="110" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IbV-L3ABFmY/WYuIR4prr1I/AAAAAAAAAyE/qbJWa7C8orcDB4pVHG7yWUXkTquJbA5_ACLcBGAs/s200/serveimage%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The locksmith will come</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've been wondering for weeks: shouldn't I have</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cleaned, vacuumed, done the dishes? Put some stuff</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">aside, just in case? For whom? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I lay on my back things seem to really</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">withdraw from order. The mail behind the door</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is claiming more and more space,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">slides continuously closer towards</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my glasses, of which one glass is missing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The only thing that stil moved, the antique clock,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stopped yesterday. What has sunk in me is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">slowly revealing itself. A few streets away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a lease agreement is terminated.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And then he comes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like a woodworm through the keyhole.</span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-89419335950664753032017-08-06T10:13:00.001-07:002017-08-06T10:28:33.230-07:00<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Art Makers </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9zGeuxQUgAM/WYdM36PnfHI/AAAAAAAAAx0/vA6bSaqhoXQdrn_d9eXcMHHlkdJAPAcwwCLcBGAs/s1600/serveimage%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="214" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9zGeuxQUgAM/WYdM36PnfHI/AAAAAAAAAx0/vA6bSaqhoXQdrn_d9eXcMHHlkdJAPAcwwCLcBGAs/s200/serveimage%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="179" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">my first wannabe-master was the </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">che-guevarra look-a-like painter </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">who in the late 90's let himself </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">get stuck with this prostitute </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and a drug smuggling route </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">courtesy of the </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Bulgarian mafia </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">he died like a spineless mosquito </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">in is own jeroen bosch painting </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I met a colleague poet </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">with in his eyes the absolute black </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">his favorite book was cloud in trousers </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">by Mayakovsky with the M of </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">mysterious from the morphine alphabet </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there still is this colleague poet </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">who muffles away the cum stains on his shaky </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">recital paper with buttered excuses </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">a poet who wins one slam after the other </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">a slam is a small competition </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">average poetry recited to judges </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">who smell like steak </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was this Slovenian street clown </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">who gave workshops in building high riding bicycles </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">in murky squatting houses </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">who with a one-snared instrument </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">wanted to copy the vibrating signal of the moon </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was this local city poet with lordosis </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">who survived all the doom and disaster </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">until a small mistake in diagnosis </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">his favorite lines written in tunnels and </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">on garbage trucks </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there still is this lisping poetess </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">with big ears and Cinderella thoughts </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">who these days starts every poem with </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">once upon a time </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was a man on a roof </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was a roofing tile stuck in her snatch </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and then she formed a thought around that </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there where her many boyfriends </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">of which one had warned her about </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">using words like roofing tile </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and that she had understood oyster </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and that it was funny to write </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">about this misunderstanding </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and that another boyfriend then said: </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">that's a cheap way to make everything funny </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">you take an ugly building </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">piss against it </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">skip away on a skippy ball </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and have it filmed by a girl </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">with down syndrome </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">while you let some autist make the music score for it, </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">you call the movie estrogen </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and write another vague poem about it </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was this new-age witch with a healthy clam </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">who told me I was a born performer </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and that I could get away with anything </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">if I dressed scantily. </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was the old school poetry slammer who found Jesus </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was the coke sniffing poet on his fixed gear bike </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was this farmer poet who attracted rain </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was this German queer with </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">dry camels in his expired passport face </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was the night man who ate jazz who had jazz </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">who wrote jazz who read jazz who stayed jazz </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there was the pipe smoking poet with 94 versions </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">of the lingo-poem w-o-r-d /word/ </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">there are and there were more and more than there were</span></span><br />
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</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">balancing on the word cord </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I once snored Juliette Lewis out of an hotel bed </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">but where and with whomever I slept </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">it where mostly the poets who surprised me with their portraits </span></span><br />
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Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-47884520982018906842017-08-05T06:26:00.000-07:002017-08-05T06:27:26.663-07:00<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Scissors</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sometimes I apply scissors to my hair, yesterday evening I watched </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a TV program about becoming happy, I wasn't</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">during the commercial break an ad about the satisfying effect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a new kind of shampoo with salt crystals that should work</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like a tiny universe to which you would ascend to.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this morning I was taken aback by a drop I saw on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a leaf, stay close to yourself I thought, both feet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the ground, be sparse with big words, avoid</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">elaborate metaphors, they could easily turn into clichés</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">J.H. Leopold wrote about life mirrored in a drop of water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">after the rain had gone. He used his scissors for the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frankfurter Allgemeine and his birthday was May 11</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the program an expert was interviewed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how can it become and how does it then feel, somebody from the audience asked</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one feeling of happiness isn't the other, often you notice it when </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it has passed, then you get dejected, dejection is a disease,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nostalgia on the other hand is something you can live with</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sometimes I apply scissors to my hair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">how perfect could a perfect day have been</span><br />
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Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-35832532459152422702017-08-01T12:24:00.002-07:002017-08-01T12:24:22.106-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span></span>
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jjNdtYnVE0A/WYDVHl8KhpI/AAAAAAAAAxo/xQrNr4_ABzYN2izgrBW07zIOh25-HFzTACLcBGAs/s1600/fsel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="399" height="171" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jjNdtYnVE0A/WYDVHl8KhpI/AAAAAAAAAxo/xQrNr4_ABzYN2izgrBW07zIOh25-HFzTACLcBGAs/s200/fsel.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">companionship verse </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">she plays with her hands </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">they obey like dogs </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">she's intrigued by the threat and at the same time the salvation they assume </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">she dreams about elephants in a snowy landscape </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">she feels compassion for people spit out like prey </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">in doorways of government buildings, she gives them a classy gutter made of poetry </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">she likes the company of men </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">she like to play the game with women </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">she likes the gravel in her village and the wet parts in the city </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">but she can never stay too long </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">she becomes like a hairbrush or a wrench </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">always put back in the wrong place </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">her heart is like </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">an old city </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">there is the old centre </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7ea; font-size: 13.3333px;">and there are new parts </span></span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-85470710507936619722017-07-25T11:55:00.002-07:002017-07-25T11:55:48.485-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You say...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You say that I don't know you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But even at a distance I check</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">your pulse daily,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">breathe every moment of you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I read you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">swaying on your tide.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decipher you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in the hidden atlas of your desires.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With one hand tied behind my back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I sail along with your laugh,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">your fears,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">your desire for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When you approach me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when you distance yourself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when you adore me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when you despise the shadows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that I cast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">over what seems life to you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've been there all the time.</span><br />
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Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-87150117190486590152017-07-18T06:26:00.003-07:002017-07-18T06:30:23.851-07:00<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;" title="data storage"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="midtext" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A tired wink<br /><br />Even a tired wink is too much for you.<br />You, paper mummy, there, in your library.<br />You feel nothing, nothing touches you, even if an oak tree would shake all its leafs,<br /><br />you would see a wooden lighting bold. Well, congratulations.<br />Your whole oeuvre fits in your daddy's invoice binder. <br />Now you've heard it from someone else, lily of the valley,<br /><br />traitor, blank-stick. With your mole face you sniff out <br />words from the books of others,<br />rearranging it all into poetry,<br /><br />sniff, sniff, with your pointy nose, to which the shavings<br />from red pencils of poets past seem to stick a little too easy.<br />Bye, scholar.<br />The paper says hi to your dad. That's right, the paper. </span></td></tr>
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Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-82149834741114254562017-05-25T05:02:00.001-07:002017-05-25T05:02:20.664-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Until we are firm enough</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You enter quietly so that your staying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">will be less noticeable and we talk about things</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like vacuum cleaners and fabric softener.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The words take on the form of my spine:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">just meant to keep things up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I press my elbows against my sides so that every goodbye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">fits within the doorframe and I say: remember</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that we used to throw paper planes around the house</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">so that we looked bigger and leaving seemed less significant?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You nod and say that you read somewhere that chewing gum,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">depending on how many people walk over it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">stays in the street for very long time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fold your hands in front of my eyes and push until</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we are firm enough</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to not disappear.</span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-65553577286150793272016-10-25T03:41:00.000-07:002016-10-25T03:41:24.584-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Regular Hangout</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Coffee is running, burning black holes in my head</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I brew white clouds from conversations at the bar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">one is resentfully complaining, the other is reading a newspaper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">while putting sugar cubes in his pocket</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Air bubbles are hard to swallow for Bernard </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">who let's himself be called The Time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">his whirling grey hair follows him somewhat behind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next to me sits a girl who is never herself </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">becoming herself in a hand-mirror</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">she is a nervous rush hour, talking in klaxon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">her trembling left leg is keeping us alive</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in return we listen to her blare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's starting to sound more like speech as time goes by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">drowning your sorrows in a Pumpkin Spice latte is hard </span><br />
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Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-82980623176988684802016-08-10T03:37:00.002-07:002016-08-10T03:37:31.701-07:00<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0PsrbI9UA3E/V6sDmPrO_PI/AAAAAAAAAv4/NUkTAQx7u3IygSUZuBwh-BPtg3PJvAvUwCLcB/s1600/ICC_WALK_DONT_WALK_op_761x800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0PsrbI9UA3E/V6sDmPrO_PI/AAAAAAAAAv4/NUkTAQx7u3IygSUZuBwh-BPtg3PJvAvUwCLcB/s200/ICC_WALK_DONT_WALK_op_761x800.jpg" width="190" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Can it continue?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The difference beween waiting and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">expecting you learned</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from a cat who ran away twice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but only came back once</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You think about the oxygen bottle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that kept your grandfather in an</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">artificial coma.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Could it continue like this an</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">aunt asked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Google maps his bike remained </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in front of the house for another three years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After that there was the person that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">said that he didn't want be with you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">anymore but that's </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">why he remained</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all this time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At night you tell him about the time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that somebody once called you a whore </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">just because you waited at a red light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He says that 'walking' in Russian</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">has two verbs, depending on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">whether you have a destination or not.</span><br />
<br />Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-31443665777255410612016-03-15T17:58:00.000-07:002016-03-15T17:58:21.160-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">no face</span><br />
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRLOrvHGQyg/VuiucrRC8xI/AAAAAAAAAvo/IYEd6ZF_73A8aO1aBYQeKCyc_vOI5K3zg/s1600/serveimage%2B%25284%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRLOrvHGQyg/VuiucrRC8xI/AAAAAAAAAvo/IYEd6ZF_73A8aO1aBYQeKCyc_vOI5K3zg/s200/serveimage%2B%25284%2529.jpg" width="170" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we say grow your beard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we generation online</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of many we are with the most</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but we never come together</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we blend ourselves </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to an image</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we create events</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like they are hormones</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">breathe down our own necks </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that show us unsolicited tattoos </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">appreciate our status</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">pay our name</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">acknowledge the remains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of our inexistence </span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-38171020821891247972015-12-21T15:51:00.001-08:002015-12-21T15:51:24.548-08:00<br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7y5JYNWvHXA/VniQVkvVL4I/AAAAAAAAAvY/o-TdSiTwRcU/s1600/litel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7y5JYNWvHXA/VniQVkvVL4I/AAAAAAAAAvY/o-TdSiTwRcU/s200/litel.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How you, because you don't trust yourself,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">reconsider a good decision</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">regret being right or wrong</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that is how you sometimes love somebody</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">for what he could have been if he wasn't </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">what he became without you. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You know where the earth and sun belongs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you know of the blood red moon but remain </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">blind in the fog and clouds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Later you see the images others made</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">they are familiar to you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like a distance you cover everyday.</span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-21841383746674611742015-10-28T15:36:00.001-07:002015-10-28T15:36:37.272-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h1FiZKgTN3s/VjFNuhAcYrI/AAAAAAAAAvI/fms7XxjogU0/s1600/2012_12_10_Falling_off_Cliff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h1FiZKgTN3s/VjFNuhAcYrI/AAAAAAAAAvI/fms7XxjogU0/s200/2012_12_10_Falling_off_Cliff.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I keep falling off the world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I keep falling off the world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when I stand still just to look around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I loose nose, ears and smile to the windows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I pass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">during the day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the perfect society demands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">perfect indifference so I use </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the streets like I take the subway</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wait, get on and hold on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to a leather strap</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and I worry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">does the one who is dying has to die today</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">or tomorrow?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You're asleep, spread across the bed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">so you can always turn to the middle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to see me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you're a vulture who's smelling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my decaying flesh</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you're watching me die</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">much to your delight</span><br />
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Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-2254911080167740102015-10-12T14:27:00.002-07:002015-10-12T14:32:13.503-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Corn</span><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-guvGksT4qPo/VhwlNMvy5aI/AAAAAAAAAu4/Yj0vo5-RCFs/s1600/IJ-cornfield-punishment1107.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="110" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-guvGksT4qPo/VhwlNMvy5aI/AAAAAAAAAu4/Yj0vo5-RCFs/s200/IJ-cornfield-punishment1107.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes I train my disillusions like they're big</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">mad dogs. Preferably in high cornfields,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">so much rustling that your disillusions seem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to walk straight out of your head, right in front of you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I call for them in all their painful detail</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Bring back! Come here!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and let them:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Go! Sit! Lay down!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After which I lay myself between the the stems and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the broken off cobs, wondering which thoughts I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">would put in place of the disappointments if</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">everything had gone my way: probably none.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How suffocating! Like erasing rooms from</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the house you grew up in, including the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the ones you used to enter for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">no apparent reason.</span><br />
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Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-37312558110071726212015-09-14T13:08:00.002-07:002015-09-14T13:08:36.939-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ipFOoHG9TjQ/VfcouoM6s1I/AAAAAAAAAuo/PvnUmF0uTNg/s1600/serveimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ipFOoHG9TjQ/VfcouoM6s1I/AAAAAAAAAuo/PvnUmF0uTNg/s320/serveimage.jpg" width="216" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Detox</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the big white forest </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we catch poisoned gnomes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">cold so cold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I search for your hand but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you're standing at the other end of the bell jar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">your nose pressed against the glass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I withdraw my hand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">whisper softly something about love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but I'm afraid to talk out loud because </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the forest scares so easy these days</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and the trees are almost bare, leafs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">fall on your tormented head</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(your slosh-head, where the murky water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">stood still in your tilted head for days, where fish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">swam diagonal, looking at me like they wanted out)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's hard to keep my hands off you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">everything demands something nice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">there are entities in between</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">let's sleep, free the fish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">catch the gnomes, sleep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and for ever </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wake up.</span><br />
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<br />Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-53971234940760517872015-07-28T17:23:00.000-07:002015-07-28T17:24:41.252-07:00<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7vkhPMXpTDI/VbgcdskSQhI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/lJI0Tk5ZWaI/s1600/serveimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="88" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7vkhPMXpTDI/VbgcdskSQhI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/lJI0Tk5ZWaI/s200/serveimage.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everything from a distance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">this way we're almost sitting in a living room,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">our benches on the pier and the sea like </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a coffee table between the both of us,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">only glasses with straws are missing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to suck life through.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">there's is nothing that makes me reach for your hand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">nothing that makes me put my trembling fingers on your lips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">or go through your hair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the reason is in suitcases</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">at my feet, heavy and clumsy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I struggle with them, but </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wouldn't want to be somewhere else right now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you know nothing about the living room </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and the suitcases full of objections, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it's the wind </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that touches your hand and lips and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">messes up your hair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">still you move your lips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to say:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'hey, that's enough'. </span><br />
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Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-7485981897835120462015-07-09T11:29:00.002-07:002015-07-09T11:29:38.930-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rX1m5fdyIrY/VZ69WmWmDWI/AAAAAAAAAt8/OWIr0JmS8W8/s1600/serveimage%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rX1m5fdyIrY/VZ69WmWmDWI/AAAAAAAAAt8/OWIr0JmS8W8/s200/serveimage%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a>C<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">oncerning the beginning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every beginning is a destruction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every perspective on far away mountains, valleys</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">kills it, records it in attractive yet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">clumsy positions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nowhere, that is nice, nowhere imposes itself as </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the inevitable alternative.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Solely is, but quickly forgotten,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">away with the envelop still unopened, the wrapping paper intact,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the child before it learns what is laid out for him,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the look, the sad look, the unspeakable</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">happiness that bursts off from the beginning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like flakes of marble from a statue,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">masterpiece or not.</span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599097179068010152.post-74332801477953442852015-07-01T14:17:00.000-07:002015-07-01T14:17:06.514-07:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p5k6dI874LY/VZRYZi4kBRI/AAAAAAAAAto/xaH1r0cVUyw/s1600/serveimage%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p5k6dI874LY/VZRYZi4kBRI/AAAAAAAAAto/xaH1r0cVUyw/s320/serveimage%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="212" /></a><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">Ode to joy</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">Love, when there's no hope: </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">only that is love. </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">Launch a new radio probe, </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">when ten have crashed, </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">take two hundred rabbits </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">when a hundred have died. </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">only that is science. </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">You ask for the secret. </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">It only has one name: </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">again. </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">Like a caryatid </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">with arms above our heads </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">we bear the granite time </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"> </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">and defeated </span><br style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">we will always win. </span></span></span>Noëlle Guerlainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914758333061193371noreply@blogger.com0