Thursday, 5 July 2012

Fiona Apple - Every Single Night



Here's Fiona Apple's official website (from which I took the following lyrics)


From observation to discovery, to History

What is the moon?

The whitish zigzags are made by night insects attracted by the neon lights.




"BOYLE:  I seen things, I seen things, Joxer, that no mortal man should speak about that knows his catechism. Ofen, and ofen, when I was fixed to the wheel with a marlin-spike, an' the wins blowin' fierce an' the waves lashin' and lashin' till you'd think every minute was goin' to be your last, an' it blowed and blowed - blew is the right word, Joxer, but blowed is the word the sailors use....

JOXER: Aw it's a darlin' word, a daarlin' word. 

BOYLE: An' as it blowed an' blowed,  I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars? 

JOXER: Ah, that's the question, that's the question - what is the stars? 

BOYLE: An' then, I'd have another look, an' I'd ass meself - what is the moon?

JOXER: Ah, that's the question - what is the moon, what is the moon?"


Sean O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock, Act I (1924)


Monday, 2 July 2012

Battements de paupières



Battement de paupières
Ses pieds dans l'herbe.
Flou blanc et vert.
La pointe et le coup de pied
Comme éperonnant la terre.
Frôlant juste le sol
Comme un djinn aérien
Passant par-dessus moi.
Une ombre blanche
Et sereine, avance.

Battement de paupières
Ses mains fripées par l'eau
Essuient une tomate
Expertement
Sous le robinet.

Battement de paupières
Un rire perdu dans la nuit
Souvenir d'un rêve
Fait la veille
À table.
Secouée de rires
Dans son sommeil.

Battement de paupières
Ses doigts remettent en place
Une mèche rebelle
Geste brusque
Derrière le lobe de son oreille.
Ses deux sourcils
Dessinent un grand V
Irrité.

Battement de paupières
Chair de poule
Un matin d'été
Long cheveu blond
Sinuant entre ses omoplates.

Battement de paupières
Coup d'oeil dérobé
De sa robe de cocktail.
Droite comme un crayon.
Visiblement intéressée.

Battement de paupières
Coup d'oeil à la dérobée
Entre deux phrases
Et un battement de paupière
Plus sensible qu'un clin d'oeil
Destiné et connu de moi seul.

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