tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10752243190545876512024-03-14T10:52:26.609-07:00Moineau en Francenew poetry by Laura TattooLaura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.comBlogger611125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-87050163328859410632021-03-30T13:58:00.007-07:002021-03-30T21:51:56.753-07:00Hélas Hellas Persephone, published February 2021!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWw1BisGq4sS_33eyso2fBgxkP7WjWMoEIY2pxcAdALwBLlo8316mSPElZmC0bbfYt9f3QjLS_jig9rUphB0y3NRcOj2Gs56fqifX4E7eg0i2O0P_Z1c6I1qlwbG6AZhwXoMciARZSoXK/s983/book+and+smile.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="983" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWw1BisGq4sS_33eyso2fBgxkP7WjWMoEIY2pxcAdALwBLlo8316mSPElZmC0bbfYt9f3QjLS_jig9rUphB0y3NRcOj2Gs56fqifX4E7eg0i2O0P_Z1c6I1qlwbG6AZhwXoMciARZSoXK/w400-h223/book+and+smile.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am happy to announce that my poetry book <i>Hélas Hellas Persephone</i> has been published by Pannonica Press. It represents the last 25 years of my writing and is in four sections:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">1) Hélas Hellas Persephone (in which Persephone finds a way to liberate herself from Hell and turns the mythology of Hellas on its head)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">2) Twelve Poems of Malady and Despair (detailing my 16 years of chronic illness and pain from which I eventually recovered)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">3) One Too Many Muses (the driving forces and characters of my life and writing)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">4) Mortal and Immortal Poems (deepening poems of life, death and recovery)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book is 127 pages and includes three poems in French and their translations. From the Amazon page: "Laura Tattoo's stunning collection of poems reveals hard-won insights
and flashes of illumination in its pages by exploring her life and its
intersection with the Persephone myth of Ancient Greece."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hélas-Hellas-Persephone-Selected-Poems/dp/0980001455" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Hélas-Hellas-Persephone-Selected-Poems/dp/0980001455 </a></i><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am filled with so much gratitude for this moment! Thank you for your support over the many years of this blog and my poetry. I look forward to your comments both here and on Amazon!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">~Laura Tattoo<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisBqjUo5FpKb-y58icD0E048OZ_bcPRR4dmHhWmKL-fWTYe9FhfSRy23GC86Q3YrhYTwiyMsAno9LhAC8sxLMwZaS9NkUXQhN3zc0m6ADOuG4s_gWK3MAi1KCX6on-W9J8Gh7Qk_-QVBAO/s2048/81NdDo6XeVL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1326" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisBqjUo5FpKb-y58icD0E048OZ_bcPRR4dmHhWmKL-fWTYe9FhfSRy23GC86Q3YrhYTwiyMsAno9LhAC8sxLMwZaS9NkUXQhN3zc0m6ADOuG4s_gWK3MAi1KCX6on-W9J8Gh7Qk_-QVBAO/w259-h400/81NdDo6XeVL.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p><p> </p><p> <br /></p>Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-2064602021119534682016-09-16T23:35:00.007-07:002021-09-14T17:21:10.271-07:00Final post for Moineau en France<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Since October, 2008, I posted much of my new work here. Now, in September, 2016, I will just let it stand and say, it was really beautiful and I am grateful to everyone who read a poem and felt a kinship... ~moineau</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Dans une autre vie
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Les marguerites s'effeuillent au ralenti
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-63141599564366048322016-01-06T09:46:00.001-08:002016-01-06T09:46:32.903-08:00Psalms in the Desert (for my mother)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>“And he brought up
Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither
father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful.”
</i></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now that your eyes
are gone,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">your visual anchors
that</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">brought you to
safety,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">living alone for
twenty years or more</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">without the jealous
husbands and lovers</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">bewildered by your
beauty,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">without the Daddies
who left you</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">or the ones you
left,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you became wise and
strong,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">talking out loud to
God</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">in ironic
conversations,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">--”Who are you
talking to, Mom?”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">--”To myself! Who
else?”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">until the lights
went out</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and your photography
was gone</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and the books by
Karen Armstrong</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and all those faces,
gone gone</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">--”Do you realize
how much I love faces?”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And more than
anything else,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the safety that
light brings through the eyes
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">or at least the
illusion of it</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">is what macular
degeneration</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">took from you.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Your five-year-old
girl</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">wandered door to
door in Queens,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">asking neighbors to
be</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">invited in for
supper</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">because your mother
was out again</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">schmoozing after
work,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and your sister, ten
years older</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">who was more
battered even than you,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">was locked in her
room again,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">brooding... so you
begged at doors,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and thank God, as
you say,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">New York was still a
village.<br />You laugh proudly:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You knew when Mrs.
Drew had
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">made another pot
roast</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and when the
neighbor down the block</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">was frying latkas.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You knew what
everyone</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">was having for
supper.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A man appeared a few
times</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">a year and brought
you presents,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">took you places,
restaurants,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Broadway shows or
the zoo,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and you never
understood</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">until you were older</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">who this mysterious
uncle was,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Martin Schaeffer,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">this man who sold
furs in Brooklyn,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and you asked your
mother</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">in your crisis
seventeen,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Why did you never
tell me</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">he was my father?”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and her answer was
spit</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">at you in hatred,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“Because he was a
Jew.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So many questions</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">leftover from your
childhood,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">like why your mother
Adelaide</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and her mother Lydia
Broll</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">spoke Yiddish in the
kitchen</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">under their breath,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">why Lydia hid in the
closet</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">every time there was
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">thunder or
lightning,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">why these women had
no love</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">for two beautiful
daughters.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Your other Daddy was
German</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and a drunkard too,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but he loved you,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">even if he was
afraid</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to show you too
much,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">afraid of your
mother,
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">that foul-mouthed
lush.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He worked for Ma
Bell</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and paid for you to
take</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">accordion lessons,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and at six, small as
you were</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(and I can only
imagine it</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as you are still
small today)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">how you lugged that
thing</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">six whole blocks to
your lesson</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and back again.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And then you played
for him</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as tears ran down
his face:<br />“Patty,” he would say,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“play it again.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When he was dying,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">unable to breathe
through the cancer,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you laid me in a
crib and</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">took care of him.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was a small price
for me to pay,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the debt so big to
your Daddy.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Your mother was late
to his funeral</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">late from the
hairdressers</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and then wouldn't
let you ride</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">in the limousine to
the cemetery:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You were devastated.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Many years later,
you wrote him an elegy</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">called “Daddy,”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and even if you gave
away</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the only copy you
had of it,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you can still recite
parts of it,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">calling him “the
Picasso of my</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">silent nights,”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the tears straining
from your chest</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">every time you try.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How much you have
given me,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the things that were</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">never given to you:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the books, the
typewriter,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the encouragement,
the cuddling,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the separation, the
pain, the becoming.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We didn't have it
easy, you and I,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and this long story
of two women is</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">no less poignant
than an Italian film</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">by <span style="font-weight: normal;">Vittorio
De Sica.<br />I will be brave in the telling of it,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
I will be as courageous as David.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
Thus will it rest as a testament</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
to your faith and your strength</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
like psalms in the desert.</span></div>
</div>
Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-90969528522046712082016-01-05T10:23:00.002-08:002016-01-05T15:01:27.019-08:00Sunset Boulevard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Quarter to four</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The lights are on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">in the hallway</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The kitchen lights too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">just in case she gets up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but she's not getting up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She's not here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She's in the hospital</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">transferred from ICU</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to Med-Surg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and she's sleeping hard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">finally disconnected</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">from all those wires</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">No it's me who's up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">wandering around her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">apartment, bitter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">anxious and depressed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">knowing she's going</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to fight me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">on every front</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and not just me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but everyone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">with her repartee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">her razor wit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and her stubbornness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I don't know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">what to do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I've got PTSD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">a mile long</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as I stand in her kitchen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">reeking with stale smoke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and plug in the coffee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Five o'clock</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and I'm watching</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Divine in "Polyester"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">recognizing the insanity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">of my own family</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and asking myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">what my duty is </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">when nothing I can</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">say or do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">will fix a lifetime</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">of her martyrdom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">God forgive me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm human but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm asking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm trying to listen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as I go quiet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">turn off the television</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">take out the garbage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and head to the hospital</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I can't even cry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I can't feel anything</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I can't live on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sunset Boulevard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's no longer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">my address</span></div>
Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-17005139087609135912015-12-09T01:54:00.000-08:002015-12-09T02:09:28.384-08:00Paris chante pour les poètes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Si je dois écrire Paris</span><br />
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
il faut que je le fasse en poésie</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
car quand Paris dit son nom</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
on n'entend que de chansons</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
éclattant de son cœur, de son marbre</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
ses lumières, ses ombres</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
s'embrassent dans une danse</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
de libertié d'avant</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
de plaisir sans attente</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
et tout le monde sait ça</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
dans son bruit, dans son silence</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
voilà comme Paris chante</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
constamment sans peur de rien</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
Vivre à Paris il faut du courage</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
car on doit vivre chaque instant</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
sans compter si le soir</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
va finir tôt ou tard</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
si l'on va se trouver sans voiture</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
si les restaurants ou le métro ferme</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
car trouver qu'on est seul</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
sans ni montre ni téléphone</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
écoutant un cloche qui sonne</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
que c'est déja le matin</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
et qu'on a marché d'un bout à l'autre</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
entouré par les fantômes qui chantent</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
tous les poètes morts et vivants</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
Ça c'est la joie, notre raison d'être</div>
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
Que Paris chante pour ses poètes!</div>
</div>
Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-74510083220219936512015-11-12T12:58:00.006-08:002023-07-20T12:34:08.845-07:00my greek phone is dying<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">my greek phone is dying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it made me feel special </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with all its greek bells and whistles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">flying greek alphabet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and greek wake-you-up jingle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it's a <i>smart</i> phone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it once saved me when </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">an athens bus brought</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">me to a mountain top</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">or when a crazy woman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">rushed me on a dark boulevard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">shrieking "I know what you've done!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it's got my daily alarms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">texts from my greek lover</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and songs he sent to calm me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">when I said it was over</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">but they're all gone now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with a factory reset</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that didn't fix anything</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">every minute or so people say</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"you're gone again...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">can you repeat that?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">i'm tired of repeating myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tired of the disappearing act </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">i'm grieving the end</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of a marriage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">i'm grieving the end </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of a romance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and my phone <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">is helping</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">me again</span> by dying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"o kosmos mas, esi" </span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>efharisto! signomi!</i></span></div>
Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-61107506860433385472015-11-07T11:28:00.002-08:002021-04-07T09:48:05.943-07:00The Return<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Returning to an old city</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">for a new life</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">it isn't easy</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Around every corner</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">are memories</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">and buses take routes</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">never anticipated</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">past the lying-in hospital</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">where my first son was born</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">and where every year</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">he returned with croupe</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">the threat of laryngectomy</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">pressing against his throat</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">and my breasts overflowing</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">with the milk denied him</span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I accidentally walked past</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">the nw children's theater</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">where my second son</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">studied Hamlet</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Where was I then?</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Depressed miles away in a bed</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I couldn't get out of</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">but somehow or other</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I caught every performance</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">If they only knew</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">how much I loved them</span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I drove past the old</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">TV station where</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I worked in the 80s</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I spent five years</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">training teachers in </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">the fine art of </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">cross curricular television</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I put everything into it</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">while the man I married</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">walked a tightrope</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">between love and alcohol</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">He slipped and fell</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I couldn't catch him</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">and b</span>y then I wasn't sure</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I wanted to</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">but I wanted to:</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I went crazy</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">resigned from my job</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">tried to save </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">the whole damned world</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">wound up in a hospital</span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">They say you can't</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">go back</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">but you can</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I've proved it</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I'm willing to take</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">responsibility</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I'm eager to forgive</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">and be forgiven</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Until then</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I'll just keep</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">riding buses</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">rounding corners</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">remembering the love</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">that never dies</span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-50063459201403248472015-11-01T10:28:00.006-08:002023-07-20T12:37:39.271-07:00Good riddance to all abusers!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">When you nailed me to the cross</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">with your hate-filled speech</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I bled a little, rolled my eyes</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and then expired</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I wasn't going to hang around</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and let you sever my head</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">kick it down the hill</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and send it into the abyss</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">where it would spin</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">in a gravity-less space</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">big enough to get lost in forever</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">No, I expired, a hundred-years faint</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">that I carried in my heart</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and wore on my face</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">like a mask of sadness</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I couldn't hide it</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and everyone who saw me</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">would say, "You look so sad!</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">What happened?"</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and I would poo-poo them</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">full of misplaced shame</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and wanting to protect them</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">"I just have sad eyes</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">It's nothing"</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">but inside I was dying</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">remembering your cruelty</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">when what I needed most</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">was love and compassion</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Like a fool</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I found you again and again</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">in one form or another</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">brother, mother, child, lover</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and the cycle would begin</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">the hammer, the sickle,</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">the chopping block, the volley</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I guess I took it on</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">because I couldn't love myself</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">but I've been practicing:</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Every moment that your whip</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">embedded in my brain matter</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">begins to crack and sting</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I've trained myself to answer</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">"I accept myself</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">fully and unconditionally</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">right here, right now"</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and the whip flies</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">from your hand</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and from my head</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">and a great calm descends</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">upon my spirit</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Then I say</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">"I accept you too</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">fully and unconditionally</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">right here, right now"</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">but I don't want you</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">in my life anymore</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">if you think you can ever</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">speak to me like that again</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I love myself too much</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">to listen to your vulgar judgments</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">those hard lies you tell yourself</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">to feel superior</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">that you pronounce as easily</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">as a killer kills --</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Good riddance, all abusers!</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Your raging star is no longer</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">the center of my universe</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I don't care who you are</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">It's over</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I am free </span><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-56843255523995312812015-10-22T10:01:00.002-07:002020-08-28T17:26:08.849-07:00Recovery Rag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span face="">I could languish over</span><br />
<span face="">Thermopylaes</span><br />
<span face="">then throw myself</span><br />
<span face="">into the sea</span><br />
<span face="">but I won't do it</span><br />
<span face="">I'm so glad I</span><br />
<span face="">washed the dishes</span><br />
<span face="">and my teeth last night</span><br />
<span face="">before I hit the bed</span><br />
<span face="">Bad habits sneak in</span><br />
<span face="">so easily</span><br />
<span face="">the self-pity</span><br />
<span face="">the paralysis</span><br />
<span face="">the disgust</span><br />
<span face="">like a lifelong practice</span><br />
<span face="">of apathy and self-abuse</span><br />
<span face="">Now I try</span><br />
<span face="">not to give up</span><br />
<span face="">put one foot forward</span><br />
<span face="">then trudge</span><br />
<span face="">make a phone call</span><br />
<span face="">finish the novel</span><br />
<span face="">open up the window</span><br />
<span face="">greet the day</span><br />
<span face="">then remind myself</span><br />
<span face="">one more time</span><br />
<span face="">that I'm worth it</span></div>
Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-84366194417177713222015-09-27T23:16:00.003-07:002023-07-20T12:44:26.218-07:00Hélas Hellas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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it doesn't much matter</div>
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I was falling I was flying</div>
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with a stone around my neck</div>
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drowning in illness</div>
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We could say you reached down</div>
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and pulled me out</div>
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it wouldn't be an overstatement</div>
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You were not Calypso</div>
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and I was not Odysseus</div>
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though when I consider</div>
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everything we went through</div>
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the analogy is fitting</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
I rested with you</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
on that volcanic island</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
erupting in the middle of Europa</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
and I was grateful</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
As the sweet centenarian habits</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
of high fat, early sleep and sex</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
became a fascist doctrine</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
I found myself floundering again</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
feeling controlled and angry</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
in the face of your volcano project</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
I was no longer buying it</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
and my mind wandered home</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
to the doorsteps of my children</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
because those deep umbral cords</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
and the lyric flow of breast milk</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
keep us united in an eternal song</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Even if I could see into the future</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
as you would later bless</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
and curse me with</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
the rejection complete and total</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
of sons for their mother</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
I still longed to return</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
and every morning</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
I ran through the streets of Lamia</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
heart beating madly
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
with fire and sweat</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
and nothing could help me</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
not warm Greek bread</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
not antique beauty</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Sweet Calypso</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
I had to leave</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i>mais j'ai fait un beau voyage</i></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and even if you are
correct that</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
the earth is
rapidly cooling</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
as we pass through</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
galactic cloud
matter</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and the increased
celestial electricity</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
is raising the
magma flows</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
in their underwater
chambers</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
sparking discontent</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
among the nations</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I would rather die</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
than never write
poetry</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
again by lamplight</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and I will die</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
that is what you</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
do not understand,
being a god</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I am a woman</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
tied to Ithaca</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and I am mortal.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
II.</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I know I promised</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
to marry you,
Apollo</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
but I did not
foresee</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
how punishing you
would become</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
when I broke my
pledge</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and left you to
languish</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
on a smoldering
Olympus</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
in the volcanic
winter</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
of your snowball
heart</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I was a lovestruck
silly girl</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
who thought she
could see</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
into the future and
you said</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-style: normal;">Go
ahead, Cassandra</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I have a roadmap”</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I looked and looked</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
but didn't see it</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
or maybe I looked
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and couldn't do it</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
or maybe I saw how</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
cold Greece would
become</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
in the immediate
future</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and democrat and Jew that I am</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I couldn't handle
your antisemitism</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
your hatred of all
Muslims</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and even those
"barbaric" Christians</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
though you still pretend
to be Orthodox</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
If anything Greece
was lost</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
to those
black-cloaked priests</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
who are paid by the
state</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and thus subjugate
and are subjugated</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Strange country:</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
You blame the
Ottomans</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and I don't blame
you a wit</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
but someday you
guys</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
have to get over it
or</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
start making your
own clothing</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Everywhere
everywhere</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
the labels scream
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-style: normal;">Made
in Turkey”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<span style="font-style: normal;">Made
in Germany”<br />Let the wealthy of Greece</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
rise up and invest</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
in their
countrymen!</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Throw off the
bureaucratic</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
shackles of church
and state!</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Don't believe me?</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Well there's the
rub</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
for me to see the
horrors</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and no one to
believe what I tell them</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
just as I didn't
believe you</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
your narrow road
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
your climate
litanies
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
or your love
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
It's fast karma or
some such</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
religious nonsense</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
more blasphemy</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
more cannibalism</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
more 21st-century
anarchy</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
We both see the
frozen future</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
but no one can hear
us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
III.</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I was a tree</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
frozen in bark</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
neglected, celibate</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
roots of sadness so
deep</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
the sky's tears</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
could not reach
them</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Apollo chased and
ravaged me</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and I became a
woman</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
named Daphne</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I blossomed with</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
sea pine in the
fall</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
orange blossom in
the spring</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
swooning under my</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
own salted perfume</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I climbed hills</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I sought beauty</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I read until my
eyes</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
grew red and bleary</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">Every
cell </span><i>vivant</i></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
my skin bronzed</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
my heart charged</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
with a lightning
rod</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
For a brief moment</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
it made me young</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and the world
became turquoise</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
water, light and
sulphur</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
burnt fields</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
paradisiacal
mountains</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
endless groves of
olive</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and the language
that entered</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
my ears was music</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and I tried hard to
learn it</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
but it was never
enough</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Oh make me a tree
again</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Oh make me a statue</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
now that Apollo has
gone</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and taken with him</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
his words of love</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Life is complicated</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and then it is not</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
and then it breaks
apart</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
into a new
composite.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Photo: Cassandra by Evelyn De Morgan</i></span> </div>
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-78591639494074815682015-09-09T13:20:00.002-07:002023-07-20T12:49:31.478-07:00Sabbatical<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A long sigh of exhaustion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">after a lifetime of love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and of things resembling love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I wasn't perfect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I committed myself when</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">commitment was clearly wrong</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and I withdrew myself </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">when I felt threatened</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I married and married</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">like a mail-order bride</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">without a dowry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and I was passed around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">like a dollar bill</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">until I felt used and dirty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I woke up in a foreign country</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">with another ring upon my finger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and nothing inside</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to claim as my own</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">so I started on this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">sabbatical</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">vowing to study myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">for as long as it took</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to reclaim my honor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to love myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and become an honest person</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Every day requires courage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to look into that mirror</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">admit my transgressions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">then amend them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My addiction to relationships</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">sends out little hooks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to catch fish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and then I realize</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I don't want them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and take the barbs out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">of my own skin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm on sabbatical</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I remind myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm not lonely</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">only growing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">millimeter by millimeter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It doesn't matter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As long as it takes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as high as it goes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">as deep as the ocean is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the love in my own soul </span><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-25538187214191909262015-08-28T21:55:00.000-07:002015-08-28T22:11:21.487-07:00Roxy Music - A Song for Europe <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>A Song For Europe (1973) - Ferry/Mackay</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
Here as I sit<br />
At this empty cafe<br />
Thinking of you<br />
I remember<br />
All those moments<br />
Lost in wonder<br />
That we'll never<br />
Find again<br />
Though the world<br />
Is my oyster<br />
It's only a shell<br />
Full of memories<br />
And here by the Seine<br />
Notre-Dame casts<br />
A long lonely shadow<br />
Now - only sorrow<br />
No tomorrow<br />
There's no today for us<br />
Nothing is there<br />
For us to share<br />
But yesterday<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These cities may change<br />
But there always remains<br />
My obsession<br />
Through silken waters<br />
My gondola glides<br />
And the bridge - it sighs ...<br />
I remember<br />
All those moments<br />
Lost in wonder<br />
That we'll never<br />
Find again<br />
There's no more time for us<br />
Nothing is there<br />
For us to share<br />
But yesterdays<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ecce momenta<br />
Illa mirabilia<br />
Quae captabit<br />
In aeternum<br />
Memor<br />
Modo dolores<br />
Sunt in dies<br />
Non est reliquum<br />
Vero tantum<br />
Comminicamus<br />
Perdita<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tous ces moments<br />
Perdus dans l`enchantement<br />
Qui ne reviendront<br />
Jamais<br />
Pas d'aujourd'hui pour nous<br />
Pour nous il n'y a rien<br />
A partager<br />
Sauf le passé </span><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-45014069888968555812015-08-21T14:05:00.002-07:002015-08-22T02:45:57.032-07:00Happy birthday, Miki Theodorakis!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Mikis Theodorakis turned 90 on July 29th, 2015. Hronia pola, maître et patriote! </i></span>This is a painting by Efthymio Warlamis, one of 130 paintings from the life of Mikis Theodorakis I saw in Lamia, Greece, in 2012.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A beautiful song from a poem by Odysseas Elytis, music by Theodorakis. The video, with English subtitles, uses clips and images from the film "Iphigenia" by Michalis Cacoyiannis.</span></i><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-40327113017439314332015-08-19T23:49:00.003-07:002015-08-20T10:39:56.515-07:00Adieu, adieu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Separation, Munch, 1896</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Adieu <span class="ya-q-full-text" id="yui_3_17_2_4_1440052112692_1730">αγάπη μου</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Νάσαι καλά mon amour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Je te souhaite un bon succès</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">un autre amour et de la paix</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Peut-être un jour il y aura pardon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">car nous n'étions que d'enfants</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">dans un chateau de sable</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">et ça fond n'est-ce pas? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mais nous voilà</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">nous allons vivre</span><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-89895892658003441262015-07-22T23:59:00.000-07:002017-03-14T19:23:44.490-07:00Lamentation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"For the Lamed-waf are the hearts of the world multiplied, and into them, as into one receptacle, pour all our griefs.” — from <i>Le dernier des justes</i> by Andre Schwarz-Bart</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am Lamed-vov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the last of the just</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and I'll tear my hair out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">before I'm done</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">if God will permit me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and of this indeed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nothing is less certain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for I must stand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and bear it all </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as recompense for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">what I've done and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">what came before</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">when I was nary a thought</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a dove on an olive branch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that traversed the great</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mediterranean cradle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and its salt-encrusted air</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">clung to my skin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and made it brittle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ultimate rejection</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">by everyone I loved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">is not a simple fruit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to carry in one's womb</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">but a heavy pit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of infinite sadness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">every bit as unbearable</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Demeter</span>'s grief</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">or any mother who</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">lost her child to death</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">or misfortune</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">or rejection</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">choose your poison</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">or an unjust God will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">choose it for you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and then you will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">cleave to him because</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">he is all you have left</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">abandoned in the middle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of the great forest</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your little clay hut</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">molded by your hands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">out of water and mud</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a tepid oil lamp burning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">on the hearthstone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">beads running through</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">your fingers upon which</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">you count the names of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">everyone you've loved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the dearly departed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the vagabonds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and the children</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">alive and buried</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and each one a blessing </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Enough they said
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">from their twaddle of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">insecurities</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">beaming off the
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">mantelpieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">one cup then two</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">like a china collection</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">her skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the motives</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the incongruities like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">mustard and berry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">it doesn't matter if</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">it tastes good</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the tongue indolent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and greedy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">wanting what it wants</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">no thought to the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">consequences</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">oh fuck it they said</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">we're tired of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">making sense</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">we're going after the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">sound bites</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">no calories no chewing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">just ironies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the good the bad and
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the ugly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the fucking clichés</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">a congregation of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">hail mary's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">old bags who make</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">beautiful music</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">they boil and whistle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and I run to them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">jumping across the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">hedge of madness into</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">something ressembling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">poesy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine on était pas des sauvages
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we weren't savages</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A
l'origine on habitait pas la cage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we didn't live in
cages</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Au premier signe on libérait les otages</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>At the first signal we liberated the
hostages</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine on faisait pas l'étalage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we didn't make window
displays</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">De nos racines, on avait pas d'héritage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>From our roots we didn't have a
heritage</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A 10 centimes, on était pas si volage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>At 10 cents, we weren't so fickle</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dieu
Dieu ... Dieu que c'est loin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>God God... God it's long ago</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A
l'origine on était pas des esclaves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we weren't slaves</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A
l'origine on quittait pas son enclave</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we didn't leave our
enclaves</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">D'origine la vie n'était qu'une seule phrase</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning life was just one
phrase</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sibylline, on mettait pas les pleins gaz</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Prophetic we didn't leave the gas
on</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Les mandarines avaient un goût de bettraves</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Mandarines had a taste like
beets</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Citadine on attendait dans les caves</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>City slickers we waited in caves</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mieux
mieux... Mieux que rien</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Better better... better than
anything</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine on avait pas des prothèses</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we didn't have
prothetics</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine on disait moins de foutaises</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we said less nonsense</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine on avait moins de facettes</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we had fewer facets</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">De
tour d'usine et pas besoin de prophètes</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Factory work and no need for
prophets</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine les poules n'étaient pas des nuggets</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning chickens weren't
nuggets</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Et pas d'usines et les poupées des puppets</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>And no factories and dolls and
puppets</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dieu Dieu... Dieu que c'est loin</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>God God... God it's long ago</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A
l'origine on avait pas des pétards</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we didn't have
shooters </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">De carabines mais les cheveux en pétards</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Of rifles but blown-up hair
(disheveled)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dans le dressing on cachait pas de cadavre</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the dressing room we didn't hide
cadavers</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine on était pas si macabre</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we weren't so
macabre</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine il n'y avait pas les images</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning there were no
images</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Les speackerines faisaient encore des massages</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>TV announcers still gave massages</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dieu
mieux ... c'est mieux que rien</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>God better, it's better than
anything</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Je ne sais pas si nous étions les pires</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>I don't know if we were worse</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Et si
déjà nous révions d'en finir</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>And if we already dreamed of finishing
ourselves off</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine tout n'était qu'un mystère</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning everything was just a
mystery</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Pas de fadas d'intifada naguère</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>No fate of recent intifadas</i></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine on passait pas le message</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we didn't pass
messages</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A sa voisine on faisait pas de chantage</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>We didn't blackmail our neighbors</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">À
la cantine il n'y avait pas de potage</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the cafeteria, there wasn't any
stew</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">De carabines, de messagers de passages</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Rifles, messengers of passages</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A
Colombine il va y avoir un carnage</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In Colombine there was going to be a
carnage</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">En haut des cimes il n'y avait que des nuages</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Over the summit, there were only
clouds</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dieu Dieu... Dieu que c'est loin</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>God God... God it's long ago</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">À
l'origine on n'était pas des occases</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we weren't bargains</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">À
l'origine on faisait pas dans l'oukase</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we didn't make
edicts</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine on faisait dans le détail</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we created in detail</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A
l'origine on était pas du bétail</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we weren't cattle</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">À
l'origine on faisait pas des entailles</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we didn't make
gashes</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Longilignes, on n'ouvrait pas les entrailles</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Slender types, we didn't open the
entrails</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mieux mieux ... mieux que moins</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Better better... better with less</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A
l'origine on était pas des minables</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we weren't wretches</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A
l'origine on piratait pas le cable</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we didn't pirate the
cable</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine il y avait moins de
vocables</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning there was less
terminology </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Entre les lignes on était bcp moins stables</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Between the lines we were much less
stable</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">À l'origine il n'y avait pas le Mossad</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning there was no Mossad</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On
s'y résigne, on était pas si maussade</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>One resigned oneself, one wasn't so
grumpy</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dieu Dieu... Dieu que c'est loin</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>God God... God it's long ago</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A
l'origine on n'avait pas peur de l'antraxe</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we weren't afraid of
anthrax</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">De la famine, de la famille de Karl Marx</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Of famine, of the family of Karl Marx</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A
l'origine on avait pas des Rolex</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning we didn't have
Rolexes</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ou des Longines on n'avait pas de Solex</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Or Longine watches
we didn't have Solexes</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine tout n'était pas si complexe</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning everything wasn't so
complex</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine tout n'était qu'un pretexte</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning everything wasn't a
pretext</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Crois moi trois fois rien</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Believe me, three times nothing</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Je
ne sais pas si nous étions les mêmes</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>I don't know if we were the same</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Les mêmes en pire comment ca va finir
?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The same but worse how will that end
?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A l'origine il n'y avait qu'un soupir</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In the beginning there was only a
sigh</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Et pas d'éclair sur ta poupée de cire</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>And no lightning strike on your wax doll</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sur
ta poupée de cire, sur ta poupée de cire</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>On your wax doll, on your wax doll ...</i></span><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-45429846428190100242015-07-09T12:14:00.000-07:002015-07-09T12:14:02.898-07:00Necessary positivity ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Stumbled on this wonderful video of Jon Batiste and Stay Human while researching... they will be the house band on Stephen Colbert's Late Night. Hey, some needed joy all around! xoxoxoxo</span></i><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-5150225914778672312015-07-08T03:13:00.000-07:002015-07-08T03:15:34.384-07:00Leonard Cohen - Villanelle For Our Time <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Borrowed from my dear poet friend Chrissa in Athens. It really says it all.<br /><br />Chrissa's poetry and translation blog: <a href="https://dfordashes.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://dfordashes.wordpress.com</a><br /> </i></span><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-10753022753638298492015-07-04T18:23:00.001-07:002015-07-04T23:23:20.325-07:00Grateful for Greece<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Grateful Hellas / Theodoros Vryzakis </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Η Ελλάς ευγνωμονούσα / Θεόδωρος Βρυζάκης, 1858</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /> Greece never dies / <span class="st">Η Ελλάδα ποτέ δεν πεθαίνει</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Le monde n'a pas de loi équitable</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Le monde n'a pas de loi toute humaine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Il y a ceux qui l'ont et pas par chance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Il y a ceux qui ne l'ont pas dans la balance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nous essayons d'être vus desaparecidos</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nous crions dans le centre tout au mundo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cet homme-là a un nom très célèbre</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Il peut parler avec tous ces généraux</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A ma télévision</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Trop de généraux</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Trop de ces cruels</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Trop de guerriers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nous ne voulons pas nous avalons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nous ne voulons pas de la guerre</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nous réspirons la même air</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">La couleur des oranges de sang</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mais ma gorge souvent trop silencieuse</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dans la peur de trop généraux</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Je veux être libre de parler et de chanter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">En face la guerre sans visage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">J'avale la paix comme l'eau de vie</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">J'avale la paix et je prie</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Je n'ai jamais prié comme aujourd'hui</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dans ce temps de guerre perpetuelle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Il a un nom très célèbre</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">et puis ces pas-de-quoi dans les rues</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">qui n'ont ni nom ni visage ni demeure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">seulement un veston de printemps</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ces pas-de-quoi c'est nous nos frères</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Et nos sœurs tous prisonniers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Pendus entre toutes ces guerres</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Qui sera le prochain?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>(poème écrit en 2003)</i></span><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-80175209389492987612015-06-19T14:12:00.001-07:002015-06-20T11:48:52.889-07:00Quatre résolutions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carl Olof Larsson - Modèle écrivant une carte postale, 1906</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">pour mon amie Annie</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Numéro un</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">éviter les vieux ivrognes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">ceux qui balladent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">de bar en bar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">en prétendant vous aimer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">mais secrètement essayant de</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">séduire la femme à coté</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">qui est plus belle que vous et plus riche</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">et qui va partir en Europe demain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">peut-être lui attaché</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Numéro deux</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">ne pas couper les cheveux</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">même si votre ex-mari insiste</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">et jamais assez courts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">mais plus encore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">tandis que votre autre ex-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">les aimait longs et rouges</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">avec un rouge à lèvre coordiné</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">et vous faisiez poupée, koukla</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">et plus encore... pute</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Numéro trois</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">être discipliné sans besoin d'un</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">autre pour vous discipliner</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">vous avez 58 ans</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">vous n'êtes pas enfant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">alors dire oui ou dire non</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">mais sachez que c'est votre propre choix</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">à prendre tout seul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">et oui avec toutes ses conséquences</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">mais voilà la liberté</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Numéro quatre</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">lire et lire sans cesse</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">car il y a tant de belles choses à</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">découvrir dans les livres</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">et ça va vous inspirer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">et vous écrirez</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">et ces mots feront votre bonheur</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">jusqu'à la fin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">vous ne vous abandonnerez pas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">votre vie renouvelée vous attend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">dans votre chambre</span><br />
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Laura Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1075224319054587651.post-39680925767622049142015-06-10T23:13:00.001-07:002015-06-10T23:28:19.070-07:00Regret<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Frida Kahlo: Diego and I</span></i><br /><br />In the rocket</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">ricocheting off my skin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">that deeply held regret</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">missing missing missing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">one's ancient homeland</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">or our hands clasping</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">or throwing oneself into</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the Aegean laughing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">all of it, shit...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">it's got to stop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My heart keeps</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">opening up like a</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">surgical wound and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">no amount of peroxide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">no amount of time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">is healing it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It wasn't enough</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to slam you to the floor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and send you packing:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the need for you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">goes on and on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">like hunger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">like greed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">like the opposite of mercy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm a condemned woman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I condemn myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and I bleed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">perpetual regret:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">it's folly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You're gone and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I know it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I must forgive myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">forgive you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">forgive everything. </span></div>
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