0177 Merde!
It's the word you hear
when anti-French views are aired -
MERDE!
when their secret liaisons have been publicly bared -
MERDE!
when they lose a lover for whom they deeply cared -
MERDE!
when a planned seduction hasn't fared -
MERDE!
when a promising mistress is running scared -
MERDE!
when by censorship their free speech is impaired -
MERDE!
Le ci-dessus
c'est pour vous
Marc (Ronberge) ..
poem by Michael Shepherd
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I've Stopped Waiting For You to Grow
Let's not forget.
And with my assistance,
Remind you.
You chose to poison,
My attempts to reach out to you.
Remember those snide remarks?
Made to me,
After you blew what I had said...
Out of proportion?
And throwing your last hissy fit.
And...
That 'was' your last!
Because I have had it with your,
Merde à la hausse.
So much so!
I've stopped waiting for you to grow.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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You can't Win a Gutter War! (second draft)
(If one becomes Evil
in order to defeat it
Evil wins)
You Lose
once
you step down
plant
both feet
firmly
in the gutter
a poison tree 1
You Lose
yourself
saw limbs of connection
amputate passion
lobotomise meaning
Consume
a diet
of sour grapes
swallow
on Impulse
Salivate
relish
chew furiously
a
not-helping
side-dish
of BLT ala Merde
lose control
at fearsome scenes
anticipated
The Future:
Dressed to Kill
with
More of the Same
all dressed up with nowhere to
getaway
from
the self imprisoned
solitary confinement
of
ANGER
flaring to boil
instantly
from simmering
resolve
down
below
the fires burn
deep
Q. Why choose Anger over Fear?
(in 25 words or less)
A. 'Because it feels empowering and anger tastes better
than fear'
but ANGER is ADDICTIVE
a good servant
a BAD MASTER
'To revenge
is to drink a cup of poison
hoping it kills
your enemy' 2
Let the the Buyer Beware
Warning
Consumers of Anger
may be consumed
by that 'enemy within'
One may
'Shop til you Drop! '
LITERALLY
1 William Blake
2 in the public domain
december in Paris
December Paris
Winter Paris pavement cafés vacant chairs and poor sparrows look for
baguette crumbs. Artists had gone to their loft conversions, in bed with
their models and plates of goose liver pate, waiting for a better time.
I came across a posh bistro people inside wore silk suits, doors locked;
invitation only. A famous philosopher came out, said something deep
about peace- in broken English- then asked where the camera was.
When he saw I wasn’t a journalist he said: Merde, and walked back in.
At the bookshop Shakespeare, academic tourists had assembled they
looked through books of famous writers, thought of saying that two of
my poetry collections were there, but they looked so educated, wore
capes of superiority and poetry workshop shoes I lost my nerve. Rain,
found a bistro at a side street, had coffee with an Armagnac, thought
of the days when Ernest Hemingway scribbled away here, other writers
too, when Paris was not so haughtily conscious of her artistic status.
poem by Oskar Hansen
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Freedom of Speech?
You can't say that.
It's not politically correct.
If you say that you may offend...
and you will stand accused
of Anti Feminism, Anti Semitism,
Anti Americanism.
The media's gone mad.
Judging every word, every nuance,
letting one little word, 'stupidly'
overshadow the real issue.
Not even the President can
say what he really thinks.
Does anyone remember
Freedom of Speech?
You can say what you believe,
even when we disagree,
it's O.K with me.
I won't call you Anti.
poem by Angela Michel
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I'm Not Scared
I'm not scared.
Though I'm not prepared.
How do I dare?
I must wade through all this despair.
All the while in disrepair.
I'll have to face it someday.
I'm not scared.
How little well I've fared.
Has anyone ever really cared?
I'm not scared.
Into the battle I must charge.
Though the task seems very large.
Desperation hammers at me like a barge.
I'm not scared.
How could I be?
When the sense of hopelessness tears so hard at me.
I know it's not to be.
With this fate I'm ill at ease.
Dear God help me please.
To this destruction I march on.
One day later the pain will be gone.
I'm not scared of all these things.
For my motivations are pure and clean.
poem by Michael McParland
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A l'enfant malade pendant le siège
Si vous continuez d'être ainsi toute pâle
Dans notre air étouffant,
Si je vous vois entrer dans mon ombre fatale,
Moi vieillard, vous enfant ;
Si je vois de nos jours se confondre la chaîne,
Moi qui sur mes genoux
Vous contemple, et qui veux la mort pour moi prochaine,
Et lointaine pour vous ;
Si vos mains sont toujours diaphanes et frêles,
Si, dans vôtre berceau,
Tremblante, vous avez l'air d'attendre des ailes
Comme un petit oiseau ;
Si vous ne semblez pas prendre sur notre terre
Racine pour longtemps,
Si vous laissez errer, Jeanne, en notre mystère
Vos doux yeux mécontents ;
Si je ne vous vois pas gaie et rose et très forte,
Si, triste, vous rêvez,
Si vous ne fermez pas derrière vous la porte
Par où vous arrivez ;
Si je ne vous vois pas comme une belle femme
Marcher, vous bien porter,
Rire, et si vous semblez être une petite âme
Qui ne veut pas rester,
Je croirai qu'en ce monde où le suaire au lange
Parfois peut confiner,
Vous venez pour partir, et que vous êtes l'ange
Chargé de m'emmener.
poem by Victor Hugo
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A l'enfant malade pendant le siège
Si vous continuez d'être ainsi toute pâle
Dans notre air étouffant,
Si je vous vois entrer dans mon ombre fatale,
Moi vieillard, vous enfant ;
Si je vois de nos jours se confondre la chaîne,
Moi qui sur mes genoux
Vous contemple, et qui veux la mort pour moi prochaine,
Et lointaine pour vous ;
Si vos mains sont toujours diaphanes et frêles,
Si, dans vôtre berceau,
Tremblante, vous avez l'air d'attendre des ailes
Comme un petit oiseau ;
Si vous ne semblez pas prendre sur notre terre
Racine pour longtemps,
Si vous laissez errer, Jeanne, en notre mystère
Vos doux yeux mécontents ;
Si je ne vous vois pas gaie et rose et très forte,
Si, triste, vous rêvez,
Si vous ne fermez pas derrière vous la porte
Par où vous arrivez ;
Si je ne vous vois pas comme une belle femme
Marcher, vous bien porter,
Rire, et si vous semblez être une petite âme
Qui ne veut pas rester,
Je croirai qu'en ce monde où le suaire au lange
Parfois peut confiner,
Vous venez pour partir, et que vous êtes l'ange
Chargé de m'emmener.
poem by Victor Hugo
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I Wish I Cared
(magne furuholmen)
To hold me closer or set me free
To trust completely or let it be
You dont know my destiny
You cant see what I can see
Hey - I wish I cared
Hey - I wish I cared
To love me truely or let me go
Inbetween I dont want to know
This is how it has to be
No more us and no more we
Hey - I wish I cared
Hey - I wish I cared
Once again, on the station
See your face in a crowd
Comes again the sensation
You cant hear yourself think
With their voices inside your head
Hey - I wish I cared
Hey - I wish I cared
I wish I cared
Yes I really do
I wish I cared
(hey) I wish I cared
Yes I really do
I wish I cared
(hey) I wish I cared
I wish I cared
(hey)
song performed by by A-Ha
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Every Word I Say
You feel like liberation
You give me new sensation
You show me what I need and
You are my life completed
Can't stop, cant break, who's driving?
Sometimes there's no denying
Till today I feel I can't lose
I'm letting go of what I knew
I want you for always
I hear your name in every word I say
I'm a fool and I don't care
I hear your name in every word I say
Every word I say
Every word I say
Before you I was only
What I let control me
You are a revolution
Against my own conclusions
So today I feel I can't lose
But I'm letting go of what I knew
Said, I want you for always
I hear your name in every word I say
I'm a fool and I don't care
I hear your name in every word I say
Oh no no no no no no no
Oh no no no no no no no
Oh no no no no no no no
Oh no no no no no
And now I say goodbye to the way I used to be
There is no room for question
'Cause your name, it sets me free
Yesterday's troubles harm me
T-Today's are creeping in
So let go of the world around me
'Cause your love is all I need
I want you for always
I hear your name in every word I say
I'm a fool and that's okay
I hear your name in every word I say
I want you for always
I hear your name in every word I say
I'm a fool and I don't care
I hear your name in every word I say
Every word I say
Every word I say
In every word I say
Oh no no no no no no no
Oh no no no no no
Oh no no no no no no no no no no
Yeah!
I hear your name in every word I say
I hear your name in every word I say
I hear your name in every word I say
I hear your name well all I hear is your name
All I hear is your name
All I hear is your name
And no one can take it away
song performed by by Hanson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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I Can't Breathe
I'm scared to sleep, I scared to dream
I'm scared to wake up in case I scream
I'm scared to whisper one word.
That's all it needs
I hear it breathe, I hear it sigh
I hear it laughing when something dies
I hear it calling
But I'm too scared to move
I'm so scared
I can't breathe
I'm so scared
I just can't breathe
I'm scared to look, I'm scared to see
I'm scared of mirrors in case it's me.
I'm scared of memories
But now thats all I have
So I can't leave and no-one comes
So no-one noticed that I've come undone.
I'd hide in shadows
But the shadows talk to me.
I'm so scared
I can't breathe
I'm so scared
I just can't breathe
song performed by by Gary Numan
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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To The Person I Love
Je ne connais pas n'importe qui
mais je vous connais
je vous aime
mais vous ne savez pas
je ne vois pas n'importe qui mais vous
mais vous ne savez pas que j'existe
vous avez les cheveux bruns
et les beaux yeux
j'ai les cheveux blonds
et les yeux cruels
vous êtes mon opposé
mais vous êtes également mon soulmate
vous êtes la personne que j'adore
vous êtes l'amour de la personne I
Mais vous ne découvrirez jamais
puisque vous devez se perfectionner
pour quelqu'un comme moi pour te demander
T ranslation:
I don't know anyone
But I know you.
I like you
But you don't know.
I don't see anyone but you
But you don't know I exist.
You have brown hair
And beautiful eyes.
I have blonde hair
And cruel eyes.
You're my opposite
But you're also my soulmate.
You're the person I adore
You're the person I love
But you'll never find out
Because you're to perfect
For someone like me to ask you out.
poem by Emily Tyrrell
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Secret Lover
Who you talkin' to baby?
Its been a long, long while
And was she worth it though baby?
Cos she dont got my style
Where you going to lover?
And is she going with you?
Everybodys been clued in
They know what you do.
Wa-Oh, Everybody wants to take a ride
Wa-Oh, But it seems sometimes your on my mind.
Secret lover, Boy, My secret lover boy
Secret lover, Boy, My secret lover.
Where you runnin' to honey?
I think id like to know
And did you see yourself baby
On my T.V. show?
Did i embarass you honey?
You were my John Doe
It doesnt seem like you loved me
And i dont care to know.
Wa-Oh, Everybody wants to take a ride
Wa-Oh, but it seems sometimes your on my mind.
Secret lover, Boy, My secret lover boy
Secret lover, Boy, My secret lover.
I want the world
I want the whole world
I want to lock it up all in my pocket
Its my bar of chocolate!
Secret lover, Boy, My secret lover boy
Secret lover, Boy, My secret lover.(x2)
song performed by by Kelly Osbourne
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The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
quote by Joichi Ito
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My Vow To You
My heart takes flight every time you are near
My world becomes calm, still, and crystal clear
I’ll tell you I love you for a million years
You have taken away all my fears
Compassionate, considerate, and benign
Tender, sweet, loving, and kind
To you I could not put up any resistance
You are my all, my life, my true existence
To dishonor you I would rather die
I could never bring a tear to your eye
A life with you is my only endeavor
I will love you for now and forever
Mon voeu à toi
Mon coeur prend la fuite la chaque fois que vous etes pres
Mon monde devient calme, tout de meme et cristallin
Je vous dirai que je vous aime depuis un million d'ans
Vous avez emporté toutes mes peurs
Compatissant, prevenant et bienveillant
L'offre, le bonbon, l'amour et la sorte
À vous je ne pouvais pas relever de resistance
Vous etes mon tous, ma vie, ma vraie existence
Pour vous deshonorer je mourrais
Je ne pouvais jamais apporter une déchirure a votre oeil
Une vie avec vous est mon seul effort
Je vous aimerai pour maintenant et pour toujours
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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Running Free
Just sixteen a pick up truck
Out of money out of luck
Ive got no place to call my own
Hit the gas and here I go
Im running free yeah, Im running free
Im running free yeah, Im running free
Spend the night in an l.a. jail
Listen to the sirens wail
But they aint got a thing on me
Im running wild Im running free
Im running free yeah, Im running free
Im running free yeah, Im running free
Pulled her at the bottle top
Whiskey dancing disco hop
And all the boys are after me
And thats the way its gonna be
Im running free yeah, Im running free
Im running free yeah, Im running free
song performed by by Iron Maiden
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Perfect Lover
It's in your head
They're telling you it's in your head
It's a figment of your imagination
It's in your head
They're telling you it's in your head
You're a victim of your infatuation
And everyone tells me she just isn't there
That it just couldn't be
Only I know how real she is to me
There's a perfect lover
Running through my head
There's a perfect lover
I can see her in my head
Perfect lover
They keep telling you
They keep telling you
It's just a fascination
Why don't they listen
No one listens to what I am saying
And everyone tells you she just isn't there
That it just couldn't be
Only I know how real she is to me
There's a perfect lover
Running through my head
There's a perfect lover
Running through my head
Sometimes I hear the cry
(I hear it crying out)
Your voice from deep inside
(Inside, inside, inside)
It's taking over me
Over me
I'm not looking through the eyes
Of a desperate stranger
What I envision is so real
I don't want to change it
And sometimes I feel
Like she's standing right there
Like I can reach out and touch her
Only I know how real she is to me
There's a perfect lover
Running through my head
Perfect lover
Running through my head
There's a perfect lover
Running through my head
Perfect lover
Running through my head
Perfect lover
Perfect lover
song performed by by Kansas
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Invocation
Ombres de mes sept Sœurs et de mes sept Pensées !
Toi, par la flèche, et toi, par la pierre lancée
Au travers de la haie et par-dessus le mur ;
Toi, par la fleur tendue, et toi, par le fruit mûr
Offerts l’un à ma bouche et l’autre à mon sourire ;
Toi que la nuit endort, toi que l’aurore étire,
Toi qui ruisselles d’eau, toi qui coules de sang,
Vous toutes qui parlez, passantes, au passant,
Assises dans le soir ou debout dans l’aurore,
Le long du fleuve calme ou de la mer sonore,
Le pied sur l’herbe haute ou sur le rocher nu,
Sur la lande déserte où danse un bouc cornu
Ou dans le verger clair où chante une colombe
Tandis que l’heure, hélas ! marque d’un fruit qui tombe
Son invisible fuite et son muet retour ;
Vous qui êtes la Mort, vous qui êtes l’Amour
O flamboyantes, ô légères, ô glacées,
En vous voyant marcher dans mon âme, Pensées
Qui descendez en moi les pentes de l’oubli,
Pour que vous les miriez en son lac d’or pâli
J’ai fait à vos sept fronts à jamais sept couronnes
Avec des fleurs d’été, avec des fleurs d’automne,
Avec l’algue du fleuve et l’algue de la mer
Et des feuillages durs immortellement verts
Et des feuilles de lierre et des feuilles d’orties,
Avec des cailloux noirs et des gemmes polies ;
Et, pour qu’en ma mémoire il se revive encor,
J’ai couronné en vous mon Rêve sept fois mort.
poem by Henri de Regnier
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It's funny
It's funny
how you're the one who is scared
its funny
how I am the only one who cared.
It's funny
how you are running around, evading me, trying and hoping that all this would be the best for me.
It's funny
how none of this is funny.
We've been friends for mad long, since when could you never tell when something is wrong.
'Bros before hoes' isn't that what they say.
No chick should get in the way.
since when does my words me nothing to you.
Don't you remember the shit we've been through.
It's my gender, that's what makes it different.
Because I am a girl, and you are a guy.
Cause I feel for you, I still don't know why.
This bull is all because of this.
I want you to look at me in the eye,
talk true to me to my face
look at me when I cry.
this is your punishment
you have to look at me at a lower place.
what you did was weak. Lying to me, not even to my face.
don't get mad because I am mad.
cause you are you and I am me, yet who is this that I see.
The guy I am looking at is a joke.
Because it isn't cute when you look at me and you make me believe
that I could trust you and you could trust me,
yet it is obvious now that that can not be.
It's funny
how you're the one who is scared
its funny
how I am the only one who cared.
It's funny
how you are running around, evading me, trying and hoping that all this would be the best for me.
It's funny
how none of this is funny.
poem by Jennifer Gordon
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Croissant Bleu
Quand j'ai vu vos yeux pour la premiere fois,
J'etais perdu
Je suis venu a la Closerie Des Lilas tres souvent
On attend pour ces moments divins pour toute la vie
Mon coeur a ete prit par joie et mal
Quand je suis avec vous, je suis perdu
Just a few
Quand je suis amoureux, c'est la peur
Juste un peu
C'etait en octobre, il y a deux ans et c'etait la troisieme fois que je vous ai vu
J'ai pas eu le courage pour ces premiers mots impossibles
Et meme reflechir a ce probleme pour commencer une conversation etait un cliche
Quand je suis avec vous, je suis perdu
Just a few
Quand je suis amoureux, c'est la peur
Juste un peu
J'etais bien place au bar et camoufle derriere un livre tres important
Avec un sourire dans vos yeux vous m'avez demande : < Quel est le titre de
votre livre ? >
Et j'ai repondu apres une pause assez artificielle : < Je ne sais pas ! >
Quand je suis avec vous, je suis perdu
Just a few
Quand je suis amoureux, c'est la peur
Juste un peu
song performed by by Yello
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Croissant Bleu
Quand j'ai vu vos yeux pour la premiere fois,
J'etais perdu
Je suis venu a la Closerie Des Lilas tres souvent
On attend pour ces moments divins pour toute la vie
Mon coeur a ete prit par joie et mal
Quand je suis avec vous, je suis perdu
Just a few
Quand je suis amoureux, c'est la peur
Juste un peu
C'etait en octobre, il y a deux ans et c'etait la troisieme fois que je vous ai vu
J'ai pas eu le courage pour ces premiers mots impossibles
Et meme reflechir a ce probleme pour commencer une conversation etait un cliche
Quand je suis avec vous, je suis perdu
Just a few
Quand je suis amoureux, c'est la peur
Juste un peu
J'etais bien place au bar et camoufle derriere un livre tres important
Avec un sourire dans vos yeux vous m'avez demande : < Quel est le titre de
votre livre ? >
Et j'ai repondu apres une pause assez artificielle : < Je ne sais pas ! >
Quand je suis avec vous, je suis perdu
Just a few
Quand je suis amoureux, c'est la peur
Juste un peu
song performed by by Yello
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