before i die

Theresa 2022-12-09 11:24:22

I thought: having a fart
that stayed in my body for too long
was like a mouse that got into a bellows and was in a
hurry to get out ,

just like someone tried and couldn't finish it ,
but was suffocated by a bath of urine .
I had a dream on a rainy morning
and dreamed of drinking with the woman I loved.

She threw away her youth and many cosmetics
, except for a can of Coca-Cola.
She used a slender straw to suck the
rest of the food on the table. Is it too much

She said she would throw my son I never met in the
sewer, could that be a robot?
But I don't think I'll be the father of a fish
That's going to die in a scalp that's going to be bald

When the sea is all around people It's when they're
about to dry their pants on a tree It's the
same game I've played it more than once
It's a pleasure You haven't found me this time

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  • Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.

  • Rémy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...

    Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.

    Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.

    Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.

    Rémy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.

    Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.

    Alessandro: Trotskyists.

    Diane: Maoists.

    Rémy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.

    Pierre: Situationists.

    Dominique: Feminists.

    Claude: Deconstructionists.

    Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?

    Claude: Cretinism.